---
title: "Drive Wire: GM Launches Hybrid Truck Models"
description: "Think of the trees."
date: "2016-02-26"
modified: "2016-02-26"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/2355/drive-wire-gm-launches-hybrid-truck-models"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "hybrid"
---

# Drive Wire: GM Launches Hybrid Truck Models

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GM has launched hybrid models of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, but you'll probably never see them. Only 700 pickups with GM’s "E-Assist" hybrid system will be built – that's 500 Silverados and 200 Sierras -- and they'll only be sold in California, only at top trim levels, and only in 2-wheel-drive models. General Motors is saying that they will monitor the market closely going forward... So, is this a test balloon? Maybe, but we'd love to see a nationwide release of a full-size hybrid pick-up.

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