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The vehicles "will be designed to travel longer distances to get to the moon’s south pole, which is colder, darker and has more rugged terrain."

General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-driving, electric vehicles for the moon. The project announced Wednesday is still in the early stages and has yet to score any NASA money. But the goal is to design light yet rugged vehicles that will travel farther and faster than the lunar rovers that carried NASA's Apollo astronauts in the early 1970s, the companies said. Mobility is really going to open up the moon for us, said Kirk Shireman, a former NASA manager who is now Lockheed Martin's vice president for lunar exploration. The rovers used by...

Marcia Dunn FILE - In this 1971 photo made available by NASA, astronaut James Irwin stands next to a rover on the surface of the moon. On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, Lockheed Martin and General Motors announced that they would combine their technological and manufacturing expertise to build the electric vehicles for NASA’s Artemis program, named after the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology. (NASA via AP, File) May 26, 2021 - 12:07 PM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-dri...

General Motors is planning to significantly grow its military defense unit and is eyeing off a $25 billion market for creating new military products based on existing vehicles. “That’s an addressable market that where we feel we have a right to win and pursue. And that’s what we’re doing,” GM Defense vice president of growth and strategy Jeff Ryder told CNBC. “As we mature, as we grow, as we build out our operating model, as we have more wins, we will have the opportunity, I think, to continue to vector into other directions or adjacent markets. So that number is not going to get ...

"That's an addressable market that we feel we have a right to win and pursue. And that's what we're doing," he told CNBC. "As we mature, as we grow, as we build out our operating model, as we have more wins, we will have the opportunity, I think, to continue to vector into other directions or adjacent markets. So that number is not going to get smaller." The company once built tanks for the military during WWII, but it has no plans to stretch that far from its core manufacturing, he said.  Ryder, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, said the military needs electric powertrains and vehi...