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GM dropping hybrid powertrains in pickup trucks

Friday, December 21, 2012 9:21

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With the release of General Motor’s plans for its half ton pickup trucks, the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 and the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, it’s clear that the new models will eschew a hybrid powertrain. Why?

by Aaron Turpen, TorqueNews

General Motors introduced its first hybrid pickup truck back in 2004 as part of the GMC Sierra 1500 / Chevrolet Silverado 1500 option package. Today, we’d call that hybrid a “mild hybrid” as it was basically a start-stop system with extra batteries (all lead acid) to accommodate all the extra idle time encountered. In 2009, GM then introduced the Two-Mode Hybrid powertrain still in production today.

With the release of information for the 2014 model year re-design of the GM 1500 pickup truck line, we see an absence of a hybrid offering. Why is that?

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