XL Hybrids recently introduced its XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive system for cutaway and strip chassis vehicles, extending its patent-pending technology to a new vehicle platform. This takes the product beyond class one and two vans to include popular class three and four truck and shuttle-bus configurations.

The conversion promises a 25% increase in miles per gallon, reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 20%, and what the company calls “an attractive return” on the investment.

The simple XL3 system is now available for commercial vehicles up to 14,500 lb GVW, including van body, refrigerated, utility, landscaper, walk-in vans, and shuttle buses. The XL Hybrids’ charge-sustaining powertrain installs in just five hours, and has zero impact on fleet operations because there are no special plugs, charging or fueling infrastructure, driver training, or maintenance requirements.

Existing customers include Coca-Cola, FedEx, and other such mega-fleets, the company says.

The system is available on the Ford E-350 cutaway and Ford E-450 cutaway, and at last word was coming soon to the E-350 and E-450 stripped chassis and GMC 3500/4500 cutaway chassis.