2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid - Review - Green Car Reports
Sometimes you need a pickup truck—and nothing else will do. Full-size pickup trucks make up roughly one in every five vehicles sold in the U. S. market, though they’re a vehicle type largely restricted to North America, where gasoline is cheap. For 2010, only a couple of the full-size pickups from GM (Chevrolet or GMC), Ford, Ram (nee Dodge), Toyota, and Nissan are offered with anything smaller than a V-8 engine. So when we needed to haul several hundred pounds of cabinets and pick up some 12-foot lumber one recent weekend, we decided we’d test the green alternative to a thirsty conventional pickup: the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid. Sales of the Silverado Hybrid (and its near-identical twin, the GMC Sierra Hybrid) have hardly set the world on fire. That’s less than 18 percent of the 8,820 vehicles sold with the Two-Mode Hybrid system, used both in pickups and in three of GM’s large sport-utility vehicles. This spring, Dodge canceled a Two-Mode Hybrid version of its own Ram pickup , perhaps with GM’s sales in mind. On the exterior, the 2010 Chevy Silverado Hybrid has nothing to give it away as a hybrid except a handful of additional chrome badges. Source: www.greencarreports.com
