GM Selects PSI for alternative-fuel vehicle modifier

WOOD DALE - General Motors has selected Power Solutions International as its alternative-fuel specialty vehicle modifier in North America.

The agreement authorizes PSI to perform alternative-fuel conversions, including natural gas and propane options, on a range of GM specialty vehicles for fleet, commercial and retail markets.

GM vehicles covered by the agreement include Silverado and Sierra 2500HD and 3500HD pickup trucks, Express and Savana passenger vans, cargo vans and commercial cutaway vehicles, and low cab forward 3500HD and 4500HD trucks. PSI plans to begin taking orders before the first of the year 2017.

"We're very excited about this latest agreement with GM and the on-road opportunities that it unlocks for us," said Gary Winemaster, PSI's chairman and chief executive officer. "It demonstrates GM's confidence in PSI and makes us an integral part of its renewed effort in the alternative-fuel pickup, van, cutaway and light-duty truck markets. We're also positioned to get in on the ground floor as an up-fitter for GM's re-entry into the medium-duty truck business."

PSI's history with GM dates back to 1996, and includes hundreds of thousands of engines placed into industrial and on-road OEM applications. In 2013, the two companies signed a multiyear supply agreement enabling PSI to sell GM 4.8-liter and 6.0-liter engines and 4L90E transmissions to on-road markets. The new collaboration represents another major step in PSI's growing on-road business, extending its reach to passenger and light-duty Class 2 and 3 pickups, vans and cutaways in addition to the Class 4-7 trucks and buses that it already outfits.