GM to Use Impco’s Dual-Fuel Systems

Impco Technologies Inc., the Cerritos developer of alternate fuel systems for the transportation industry, says that General Motors Corp. signed a deal to install Impco’s “bi-fuel” system on some Chevrolet Cavaliers to be sold this summer. The system allows the vehicle to run on clean-burning compressed natural gas or on gasoline.

Impco moved its research department and a manufacturing unit to Irvine last year, and it is in that 80,000-square-foot facility that development work on products like the twin fuel system takes place.

The dual-fuel Cavaliers will be available at Chevrolet dealers this summer, said Robert Stemmler, Impco’s president.

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John O’Dell covers major Orange County corporations and manufacturing for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-5831 and at john.odell@latimes.com