GM to build natural gas-powered fleet vans (Dallas)
General Motors plans to sell full-sized vans powered by natural gas, the company announced today.
The natural gas versions of its Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans will be available only to fleet vehicle operations.
Dallas’ Love Field and D/FW International Airport have put incentives in place to encourage taxi cab operators to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas vehicles. Those moves have been challenged in court by cab owners.
Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has pushed natural gas as a bridge-fuel to reduce American dependence on imported oil. He also is a financial backer of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which builds and runs compressed natural gas fueling stations.
Read the full story in the Dallas Business Journal.
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