CURRENT GM HYBRID VEHICLES!

Pickups

In May, 2004, GM introduced the world’s first full-size hybrid pickup when it delivered 50 hybrid Chevrolet Silverados to Miami-Dade County.

The GM hybrid pickup uses GM’s flywheel alternator starter (FAS) system that provides a 10 percent fuel economy savings -- delivering the highest estimated city fuel economy of any full-size truck.

Both the flywheel alternator starter system in our pick-up truck and the belt alternator starter system are mild hybrid systems. They are intended to provide customers an affordable hybrid option with a fuel economy improvement over the conventional vehicle.

GM ‘s hybrid truck offers most of the functionality of other full hybrid systems and gets more miles from each gallon of gas mainly because of the engine start/stop function at low vehicle speeds or idle and regenerative braking, which turns the motor into a generator as the truck decelerates. For additional fuel savings, the fuel is shut off instantly any time the truck is coasting or braking.

Beginning with the 2005 model year, the hybrid pickup (Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra) was made available to retail customers in six states Alaska, California, Florida, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

· The availability of the hybrid pickup trucks will be expanded nationwide for the 2005 calendar year beginning with the ’06 model year production. The hybrid pickup trucks will be offered at select dealers whose service departments will have the specialized hybrid service training.

· We are projecting around 2000 of our Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra hybrid trucks for the ’05 model year (includes 500 fleet).

· For the ’06 model year, we are projecting 2500 retail and another 500 fleet for a total of 3,000.

Transit Buses

· GM has delivered hybrid-equipped buses to 20 cities across the U.S. And, Yosemite National Park will soon have a fleet of 18 new GM hybrid powered buses that are scheduled to go in service this spring.

· Transit buses with GM’s hybrid propulsion system provide a significant fuel economy improvement, dramatically lower emissions and many other benefits including superior torque, better acceleration than conventional diesel buses and operation sound levels equal to passenger cars even in tunnels. The system is an excellent investment for urban transit fleets.

· The 60 percent fuel economy number was generated from an independent third party laboratory test using a SAE test standard for city traffic conditions. The test indicated that the GM hybrid bus propulsion system delivers 60 percent fuel economy for a 40-foot urban transit bus and that is unchallenged.

· Real world experience with the hybrid buses has delivered fuel economy improvement results typically greater than 20 percent and on some routes as high as 55 percent.

· The GM diesel-electric drive system for buses uses the most efficient parallel hybrid architecture available in the world today, and we think it is an excellent investment for urban transit bus fleets. It’s also the technology, which has served as the starting point for GM’s co-development with DaimlerChrysler of a two-mode full hybrid system for applications in rear- and front-wheel drive cars, trucks and other vehicles.