GM To Launch CNG-Powered Truck In 2012
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GM Fleet and Commercial Operations plans on complimenting its current offering of compressed-natural-gas-powered bi-fuel GMC Savanna and Chevrolet Express utility vans by launching a pickup truck with the same propulsion system sometime next year.
The truck will be able to run on either compressed natural gas or everyday gasoline, will be covered by GM’s three-year, 36,000-mile new vehicle limited warranty and five-year, 100,000-mile limited powertrain warranty and vehicle emissions warranty, and will comply with all emission regulations here in the United States.
Indiana-based IMPCO Automotive will be in charge of modifying stock pickup trucks in order for them to run on natural gas, just as they currently do with the Express and Savanna vans. The mysterious part about all of this is that GM failed to mention in the presser just which trucks will get the treatment. So stay tuned for more.
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Must be the Colorado. Why would they be so cagy about it if it was just a good old Silverado they were modifying?
This is unfortunate GM is going the wrong way. Everyone else is going with propane which has greater access that CNG. CNG was tried back in the 80′s and fell flat. In the GR metro area of over a million there was only one filling station and it was not easy to get at. Propane is easier to find, thus the reason Ford is going with Roush and his conversion. Once again the old GM is showing up. GM always has had the ideas but by the time they make it out of the committees another manufacture is making it. Case in point, Pontiac had a great concept vehicle, I dont remember the name, it went into committee and was lost. Toyota said great idea and produced the Rav4. There are many other examples.
New GM wake up and see what the real trends are.
I probably will get slammed on this one. But truth hurts sometimes.
So GM cancel CNG and go propane like the rest of the market is.
Smart move. CNG is becoming a very popular fuel for fleets, particularly public utility and municipal. I think that is who these trucks will be marketed to. And my guess is the trucks will be regular cab 2500HD’s.
Well I get the publications for fleets and it seems most are using propane for many reasons. Let me state I am not anti GM. After selling GM products for 34 years I would like to seem them be the front runner in innovation again. They wait to long to bring out a new model or tech.
I’m planning to purchase a 2013 , 3500 ,4×4 ,LTZ, with trailer towing package. Will I be able to request propane fuel to my truck?
This is ABSOLUTELY the right thing to do and something that we commend! Many sectors within the country have already migrated to CNG [buses, taxis, airport fleets, garbage trucks, etc.], so those posting above are not informed – or ill informed. CNG is a much cleaner burning fuel than propane and is readily available – with infrastructure growing daily. Clean-burning CNG allows us to move away from OPEC, improves the environment, reduces noise, and is an important step in American energy independence.