GM future "stuff": electric power steering

[NewsFlash]

This article comes from "pickuptruck.com" and is mainly about how well GM trucks are doing in the marketplace, this link is to page 3 of 6. It talks about GM's future plans to increase fuel economy, one of them being going from a hydraulic steering to hybrid technology electric steering. This may mean going to a 42-volt power system for trucks for such a system, not just for the hybrids (which I know nothing about).

The fuel economy part starts at the second paragraph below the picture in the article.

http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/2007...son/page3.html

[BeeUU]

They use electric steering on several car models. Save gas but makes for a terrible drive, no feel at all......

[slurp812]

Originally Posted by theclencher

Put manual boxes back in everything- heck, that's all pickups used to have! No wimps allowed.

LOL, thats how it should be!