An average General Motors electric vehicle has about 6.16% fewer fasteners than the traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) car.

Phil Lienert of GM’s advanced technology communications team responded to a GlobalFastenerNews.com inquiry on the difference between the number of fasteners in its EVs versus ICE.

“We compared two similar ICE and EV models and found that the ICE model had about 730 fasteners in its propulsion system with about 685 for the EV,” Lienert reported.

“Outside of the propulsion system, we expect that EVs will have a similar number of fasteners to their ICE counterparts,” Lienert added.

Traditionally the total number of fasteners in a car has frequently been rounded off to 2,500.  Lienert noted the actual “total number of fasteners varies from vehicle-to-vehicle, but 1,400 is a rough average for the typical GM internal combustion vehicle, not counting pre-assembled components that might contain additional fasteners.”

Lienert noted in his response to FIN that “we don’t get many questions about fasteners,” and the ICE vs. EV numbers “took us some time to track down.”