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Update: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV

Clean Fleet Report

With an announced on sale date of spring 2023, the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV is slowly getting attention from full-size pickup owners. Clean Fleet Report wanted to give an update as we are one year out from seeing the Silverado EV in Chevrolet dealerships. This review highlights the status of the Silverado EV as of May 2022.

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Chevy Silverado mpg: Turbo-4 lower than V-8 in gas mileage test

Green Car Reports

It makes even more sense for popular, thirsty large pickups, where each mpg improvement can save a lot more gallons of gas. Until all cars can become electric, it makes sense to support making internal-combustion passenger cars as fuel-efficient as possible.

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2014 Chevy Silverado Pickup Gas Mileage Rises For Largest V-8 Engine

Green Car Reports

Even pickup trucks are getting better gas mileage these days. The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (and its 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 twin) with the 6.2-liter The EPA ratings are 15 mpg city and 21 mpg highway for rear-wheel-drive models, and 14 mpg city and 20 mpg.'

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Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra Pickups To Get 8-Speed Automatic To Boost MPG

Green Car Reports

One of the factors making higher gas mileage possible across pretty much any vehicle on sale these days is multispeed transmissions. Future models of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks will.'

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First natural gas GM half-ton pickups with 5.3L DI engines delivered in Texas

Green Car Congress

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado trucks for each fleet were upgraded to run on either natural gas or gasoline using the new DuraDrive DI natural gas system, supplied by Utah-based AGA Systems. l/100 km) highway.

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Ford to offer 2014 F-150 with natural gas option

Green Car Congress

Ford will offer the 2014 F-150 with the ability to run on compressed natural gas, making Ford the only manufacturer in the US with an available CNG/LPG-capable half-ton pickup. Silverado 2500HD and 3500 HD and Sierra HD). The Ford F-150 averages 23 mpg on the highway (10.2 Natural Gas' Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version. If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking. liter Ecotec gas-burner did most of the work with its 170 horsepower.

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