Original Equipment
April 2003
In the Army now
In January, General Motors Corp. and the U.S. Army revealed a diesel-hybrid military pickup truck equipped with a fuel-cell auxiliary power unit (APU) that could become the model for the Army's new fleet of 30,000 light tactical vehicles by the end of the decade. The vehicle was designed and engineered by GM Military Truck Operations, and incorporates technologies from the Allison Transmission Division, the Fuel Cell Activities organization, and GM's strategic fuel-cell-alliance partner, Hydrogenics Corp. The Army will evaluate the prototype before establishing performance and procurement criteria and opening the bid process. GM has produced about 80,000 military vehicles since the mid-1980s.
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