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The issue of the unstoppable oil price hike nowadays is very much alarming. People are making ways so as to escape from the nightmare it could bring them. Many are converting their vehicles into cheaper fuel-powered units. Some choose electric ones. Others choose to limit their driving so as not to consume more fuel. Those are the common cases for people who already own a vehicle. But when it comes to people who are still planning to buy one, they tend to choose the small cars more. Because of that, the makers of SUVs are the ones greatly affected. People see this kind of vehicle as fuel-thirsty creatures that would not help them save a dollar.

That very reason led the way to General Motors (GM) to innovate their SUVs so that it could be lined up to those current hybrid vehicles. Just this year, it made two of its large sport utilities—the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon—into hybrid vehicles and the company is planning still to convert the Cadillac Escalade and other full-size pick-up trucks.

The company’s engineers used the two-mode hybrid system that offers two types of operation—one for driving in the highway and another one for city driving. They made the Yukon and Tahoe greener without changing much their heavy-duty characteristics. These two vans could still tow a big boat or a trailer and accommodate nine passengers at most.

With this huge and heavy-duty van, why suffer the consequences of the limited capacity of your vehicle, which is the small car? GM had made a way for these giants to have a diet of their favorite fuel. So if what you really need is a large one, you would not worry anymore about the amount of money you will need to feed it.