The Opel Ampera killed?

Posted on 21-07-2014 at 18:59 by ricardo – 38 Comments”

It was a brave attempt by Opel in 2011, the Ampera on the market. The call for an electric car was at that time still louder, the number of charging stations increased steadily, and the most important: governments rewarded efficient EV’s. What could possibly go wrong?

However, the electrically powered and with a range extender-equipped Ampera – created in the image of the Chevrolet Volt – is barely sold. Thanks to ever-changing government policies. Last year, there were 3.184 Ampera’s to the man charged in Europe, which was already a decrease of 40 percent compared to the year before. And in the first five months of 2014 is even more dramatic. In this period there are on this continent, only 332 pieces of adhesive.

How the the there in the Netherlands stands for, we know. Because the EV of the 0% bijtellingscategorie to the 7% bijtellingscategorie moved, almost nobody has sense to him to lease. In 2013, there are still soon ditch Ampera’s number plate, so they bijtellingsloos through life can go (pure tax evasion, ed.), in the first half of the year, there were only nine registered.

Automotive News reports today, according to two sources who know more about GM’s plans, the Ampera, therefore, is cancelled as the Chevrolet Volt in the second half of 2015, a successor. And since Chevrolet then disappeared from Europe, we can also not order more. An end to the hybrid-tour of Opel? We can make us imagine, with such dramatic sales growth and increased competition in the low bijtellingsveld. Opel did not want the rumors to go in.

UPDATE: according to the Opel CEO gets the Ampera just a successor. More info Groen7.nl.