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New 2019 Chevy Silverado pickup: planned for all powertrain types

Green Car Reports

For the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado pickup unveiling Saturday night, Chevy's executives and engineers stayed ruthlessly on message. Vehicle launches at auto shows include a dance between automakers, which only want certain information revealed, and journalists, who want to put specific news items into a bigger and broader context.

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How Silicon Valley startup boosted MPG in 2019 Chevy Silverado pickup truck

Green Car Reports

Sophisticated engine-control algorithms under the hood of the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado full-size pickup truck, which make the truck's V-8 engines more efficient, came from work done by a company GM bought in 2012. It looks like GM's investment arm, GM Ventures, has borne some real-world, fuel-saving fruit.

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2019 Chevy Silverado will offer new turbo-4 that can run on 2 cylinders

Green Car Reports

Chevrolet announced last week that its upcoming 2019 Silverado full-size pickup will offer a new turbo-4 in place of the base V-6 in some models. Like the V-8s in some of GM's large pickups, the new engine will have active cylinder management that cuts two of the four cylinders during light loads.

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Inline-6 turbodiesel in 2019 Chevy Silverado pickup to be built in Michigan

Green Car Reports

The forthcoming diesel-powered 2019 Chevrolet Silverado will, without a doubt, thump with the Heartbeat of America.

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2019 Chevy Silverado: how a big, thirsty pickup gets more fuel-efficient

Green Car Reports

So the launch of the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado Saturday night before the Detroit auto show was a big deal for the company. The highest-volume vehicle GM sells in North America is a full-size pickup truck—one that likely also contributes outsize profits from each of its hundreds of thousands of units.

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GM sold more than 1M crossovers in US in 2019, more than 1M full-size trucks

Green Car Congress

delivered 2,887,046 vehicles in 2019 in the United States. The Chevrolet Traverse and GM’s best-selling crossover, the Chevrolet Equinox, both continued to grow, achieving their best-ever sales in 2019. The all-new Chevrolet Blazer mid-size SUV debuted in 2019 and gained retail market share nearly every month. General Motors Co.

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Chevrolet and Ford cruise into Detroit Auto Show leading with truck introductions

Green Car Congress

Chevrolet and Ford each are entering the Detroit Auto Show this week on the heels of major truck introductions: for Chevrolet, the next-generation Silverado full-size pickup; for Ford, the return of the Ranger mid-size pickup. The 2019 Silverado is larger than before, including a wheelbase that is up to 3.9 diesel and 5.3L

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