Fuel-Efficient Trucks Columbus OH

Because big trucks are among the worst gas-guzzlers, remodelers are feeling the pinch. Fortunately, the latest pickups offer increased fuel efficiency through alternate-fuel or “hybrid” gas/electric engines.

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Roush Honda
(614) 882-1535
100 West Schrock Road
Westerville, OH
Quality First Auto Sales
(614) 491-0100
3204 Lockbourne Rd
Columbus, OH
Dennis Hyundai of Dublin
(614) 889-2441
2441 Billingsley Rd
Columbus, OH
Carriage Towne Chrysler Dodge Jeep
(614) 888-3412
2815 Stratford Dr
Columbus, OH
Dan Tobin Pontiac Buick GMC
(614) 889-6300
2539 Billingsley Rd
Columbus, OH
Byers Automotive
(614) 792-2455
2455 Billingsley Rd
Columbus, OH
Daewoo
(614) 471-3300
3245 Morse Rd
Columbus, OH
Creative Leasing
(614) 275-4177
2440 Harrison Rd
Columbus, OH
X Treme Auto Sales
(614) 272-6000
1414 Sullivant Ave
Columbus, OH
Camillot Auto
(614) 586-1592
2976 E 5th Ave
Columbus, OH


Because big trucks are among the worst gas-guzzlers, remodelers are feeling the pinch. Fortunately, the latest pickups offer increased fuel efficiency through alternate-fuel or “hybrid” gas/electric engines.

GM's hybrid pickups have a standard gasoline engine augmented by a 14-kilowatt electric starter generator. The electric motor supplies supplemental power (including a 120-volt alternating current to power electric tools) and allows the vehicle to shut down instead of idling. GM offers 5.3-liter V8 hybrid gas/electric engines in its 2006 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra (shown) pickups.

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Chevy heavy-duty HD Silverado pickups are available in bi-fuel models that run on gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), a green fuel. Ford, which says it will produce 250,000 hybrid-electric vehicles per year by 2010, offers flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) technology on all F-150 pickup engines. These vehicles operate on either gasoline or a corn-based ethanol mixture; the engines will run exclusively on E85, an 85% ethanol, 15% gasoline blend.

Though there's no upcharge on FFV engines, the vehicles require special fuel pumps designed to withstand the highly corrosive ethanol, which are hard to come by in the U.S. where there are currently fewer than 500 flex-fuel fueling stations nationwide.

Adapted from the March/April 2006 issue of BUILDING PRODUCTS magazine.

 
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100 West Schrock Road
Westerville, OH

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