With gasoline once again at suicidal prices here in the United States, GM’s breadwinning pickup truck and commercial fleet offerings are undoubtedly going to receive blows to their sales numbers. Thankfully, GM is offering an alternative to gasoline for its trucks.
Beginning April 13, fleet and retail consumers can place orders for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 2500 HD extended cab pickup trucks that utilize a bi-fuel drivetrain. Like the Compressed Natural Gas and Liquid Propane Gas bi-fuel van offerings from GM, the trucks use a modified 6.0L Vortec V8 that is capable of seamlessly running on either CNG, LPG, gasoline, or a mixture of each. The trucks meet all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emission certification requirements.
GM announced last October that it would roll out CNG/LPG pickups sometime this year.
GM claims to be the only manufacturer to offer a single-source option for its gaseous fuel vehicles. Additionally, the trucks 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 — which is unbeatable compared to other commercial vehicle warranties.
Aside from being cheaper to fill up, the EPA claims that CNG vehicles reduce carbon monoxide emissions by 90%-97% compared to gasoline. Carbon dioxide emissions are cut 25%, nitrogen oxide emissions are reduced 35%-60%, as well as the reduction of other carcinogenic pollution and particulate matter.
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This technology has existed for decades in Europe. I like it a lot and hope that RV builders will see an opportunity not available elsewhere. Personally I need a crew cab.
Good call. I agree, we need CNG cars here. I was in Latin America last year and all of the taxis (a lot of Chevy Sparks btw) were running on CNG and most of the propane stations there had CNG pumps.
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This technology has been around for years, I remember seeing trucks with butane tanks in the back when I was a kid.I don’t understand stand why GM wont build its cars to operate on gasoline and cng instead of trying to build these electric cars. Could it be because there is an over abundance of natural gas and they may not make as much profit with cng vehiclesand the oil company wouldn’t make as much. I can’t imagine it would add more that a couple thousand of dollars to the current cost of a vehicle. I’m sure it wouldn’t make them as expensive as the Volt that no one seems to be buying. Maybe GM is only building the Volt for extra monies from the feds could it be.
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