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GM Reportedly Abandoning Full-Size Hybrid Trucks and SUVs

By Andrew Wendler

By Car_and_Driver Sep 8, 2012 6:18AM

2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid (© General Motors)

 

 

 

 

 

The next generation of full-size GM pickups and SUVs will be almost entirely free of hybrid models, according to GM Inside News. Scheduled to launch less than a year from now, the new lineup was originally slated to utilize an updated version of the current two-mode system. Now, it appears the next-generation Cadillac Escalade may be the only full-size ute to be hybridized.

 

GM wouldn't comment on its hybrid full-size picks and SUVs coming to an end, only saying that the real-world benefits and financial viability of their entire portfolio of global and regional vehicle programs are periodically reviewed. As a result, "some technologies are pulled ahead, delayed, or cancelled. This is a normal course of business."

 

Other sources inside GM have told C/D that the program for the next-gen full-size truck and SUV lineup--including the Tahoe and Yukon SUVs and Silverado and Sierra pickup--is focusing on evolutionary development in chassis refinement, driving dynamics, interior appointments, and comfort, rather than hybridized powertrains.

 

Read more at Car and Driver:

2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid: Short Take Road Test
2009 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra Hybrid: First Drive Review
2011 Ford F-150 FX4 SuperCrew 4x4 EcoBoost V6: Short Take Road Test


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The NonGoggleGuy
Sep 10, 2012 4:49AM
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It's about time.  Hybrids don't make sense in small cars; let alone huge, heavy SUVs...

 

I did the math once.  Assuming 15,000 miles a year, it would take 58 years to make your money back from buying a Tahoe Hybrid over a Tahoe.

alur77
Sep 8, 2012 1:22PM
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Guess which customers are going to get the cold shoulder when they drive their hybrids into a GM dealership for service?  

I can hear the service manager explaining why a 3-year-old hybrid can't be serviced quickly or cheaply. I feel sorry for the suckers who bought those models.
xquzit98
Sep 11, 2012 11:15AM
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These things we're rediculous from the get go.   "Oh look at me, I'm saving the environment in my 20mpg Hybrid Escalade!"....

 

Whatever, give me a break.  The green "H" on your Cadillac should stand for Hypocritical.

Troy S.
Sep 8, 2012 5:59PM
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GM abandoning something? Pontiac, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Saab, 4 of its CEO's in 18 months, American taxpayer dollars, customer safety, jobs in their own backyard, stockholders, towns where their plants and dealerships were shuddered.....    GM's track record is full of failure. What else do you expect?  
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