When they’re thinking about buying a hybrid vehicle, people sometimes worry about stuff that’s just silly. Sometimes, though they’re absolutely right to be concerned.

In a survey done in cooperation with Harris Interactive, Kelly Blue Book’s Web site. KBB.com, asked car shoppers who were considering a hybrid and what worried them about the vehicles.

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Winnipeg Free Press by Jim Kerr

GM’s two-mode hybrid powertrain will first appear in full-size sport utilities.  The 2008 hybrid Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon started production this spring and will soon start showing up in select dealer showrooms.  I say select because not every dealer that wants one will be able to get one.  The demand for this new hybrid vehicle is already high and the initial production is limited to only some dealers.  As production increases, other dealers will receive them too.  Here is why they have been in high demand, even before production started. Read the rest of this entry »

Bigger is now Better

The Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, Canada’s first full-size hybrid SUV*, has been named Green Car Journal ’s 2008 Green Car of the Year®. Tahoe, the first vehicle to use General Motors’ two-mode hybrid system, offers an increase over the standard Chevrolet Tahoe. Read the rest of this entry »

Byline: John LeBlanc
Publication: Wheels Section - The Toronto Star
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2007
Make no mistake. The world’s first full-size gasoline-electric hybrid sport utility vehicle was designed first and foremost for Americans who can’t kick their large SUV habit.
I say Americans because for every full-size SUV sold in Canada, many more are sold down here south of the 49th parallel.

With the tripling of gas prices, U.S. subprime interest rate crisis, and growing environmental awareness notwithstanding, getting some Yanks out of their large SUVs is like asking them to hand over their firearms, or (worse yet) stop watching the NFL on Sunday afternoons.

For those souls addicted to such vehicles, Chevrolet has the first step to recovery that doesn’t ask you to change your big SUV lifestyle: its new 2008 Tahoe Hybrid.

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After watching arch rival Toyota get all the glory during the past seven years for its push into gasoline-electric hybrids, General Motors Corp. now seems intent on catching up. The world’s largest automaker now has more hybrids in its lineups or on the way than Toyota does, with the latest two having been introduced at auto shows earlier this month.

These newest ones are the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 full-size pickup, unveiled in Los Angeles, and the Cadillac Escalade full-size sport utility vehicle, shown first in Miami, then in Los Angeles.

Equipped with GM’s new two-mode hybrid system, which is similar to the setup used by Toyota, these two new hybrids go on sale next year. The Escalade will arrive in the summer, and the Silverado in late fall.

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