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NAGOYA, Japan - Automotive News reports that Dan Nicholson, General Motor's vice president for electrification, positioned his company at the forefront of electric truck development during an address at the 2019 World Mobility Summit held this year in Japan. GM, he said, will not dabble in gasoline-electric hybrids, as rivals Toyota or Ford have considered. "At General Motors, we're big on full electric, and we're big on state-of-the-art internal-combustion engines. The stuff in the middle, we'll see," Nicholson said. At the same time as the Nagoya conference, GM introduced a fully electric pickup concept, the Chevrolet E-10, at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Business Insider describes the retro-styled E-10 is an electrified update of GM’s 1962 C-10 pickup truck, mixing a vintage body with the EV electric powertrain from the Bolt EV. The system, which the company calls "Connect and Cruise," pairs electric crate motors â called eCrate â batteries, and a "conventional" automatic transmission. GM’s VP of Performance and Motorsports Jim Campbell said the E-10 re-imagines the performance crate engine for hot rodders and is an important step toward GM’s vision of a zero-emissions world.
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