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Article: Gas industry, automaker begin gas-powered truck program.
- Article from:
- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- February 26, 1991
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Gas Industry, Automaker Begin Gas-Powered Truck Program
HOUSTON -- The General Motors Truck & Bus Group and the Gas Research Institute (GRI) have signed an agreement to begin engineering and product development of GM light- and medium-duty trucks powered by compressed natural gas.
The nearly $40 million program to develop and manufacture a dedicated natural gas engine will be funded by GM Truck & Bus and a gas industry consortium led by GRI. The objective is to offer a regular production CNG-powered truck by the mid-1990s.
GM vice president and Truck & Bus Group executive Clifford J. Vaughan said, "We are pleased to enter this partnership with GRI ...