General Motors Ampera

General Motors Ampera

General Motors Ampera
Opel / Vauxhall
aka	Chevrolet/Holden Volt
Production	2011 - present
Class	Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Plug-In Hybrid
Body Style	4-door, 4-seat Sedan
Length	177 in
Width	70.8 in
Height	56.3 in
Wheelbase	105.7 in
Weight	Weight - you get the point
Transmission	transmission + FWD
Engine	engine
Power	150 hp @ N/A rpm 273 lb-ft of torque @ N/A rpm
Similar	similar (competition)
Designer	Designer (lead designer if it was a team effort)

The General Motors Ampera is a plug-in hybrid produced by General Motors under the Opel and Vauxhall marques. The Ampera is a rebadged Chevrolet Volt for the European market. The production version of the Ampera was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The Ampera was assembled at the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant, Michigan.

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Pricing

In February 2011 Opel announced they would offer the Ampera throughout the Eurozone for a uniform €42,900 (US$56,920), including VAT. Prices by country still varied due to different trim levels in each market. The Chevrolet Volt also has a uniform price that starts at €41,950 (US$55,660 in May 2012) including VAT. The Opel Ampera is eligible to several subsidies and tax breaks available for plug-in electric vehicles in several European countries.

In the UK, the Vauxhall Ampera starts at GB£37,250 (US$60,400 in May 2012) before discounting the GB£5,000 Plug-in Car Grant The Chevrolet Volt was also available in the UK at GB£33,545 (US$54,400 in May 2012) before the government grant. All Volts in the UK came standard with leather interior.

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Sales

General Motors production target for 2012 was to manufacture 10,000 Amperas for sale in Europe, 6,000 destined for Opel and 4,000 for Vauxhall in the UK, plus an additional 2,000 Volts were to be made available for the region. The carmaker targeted the Ampera for business fleet market and local government agencies, where Opel has a strong customer base, while the Volt is aimed at retail customers. According to Opel, by June 2011 around 5,000 customers across Europe had reserved an Ampera, with fleet or business customers representing 60% of reservations, and a total of 7,000 orders were received by March 2012, with Benelux, Germany, and the United Kingdom as the top markets in terms of orders.

The Opel/Vauxhall Ampera was Europe's top selling plug-in electric car in 2012 with 5,268 units and captured a 21.5% market share of the region's plug-in electric passenger car segment. As of October 2013, the Ampera held a market share of almost 10% of European registration of plug-in electric cars since 2011. The market share in the Netherlands was 40% and 10% in Germany. Ampera sales fell 40% in 2013 to 3,184 cars, and within the plug-in hybrid segment, the Ampera was surpassed in 2013 by the Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV (8,197), Volvo V60 plug-in (7,437), and the Prius plug-in (4,314). In 2013 the Ampera ranked eighth among Europe's top selling plug-in electric vehicles, and its market share fell to about 5%. During the first five months of 2014, only 332 units had been sold, down 67% from the same period in 2013. In July 2014, Opel announced that due to the slowdown in sales, they would discontinue the Ampera after the second generation Volt launch—and that between 2014 and 2018, they plan to introduce a successor electric vehicle in Europe. Ampera sales totaled 939 units in 2014, and only 215 units during the first nine months of 2015.

As of June 2016, Opel/Vauxhall Ampera sales totaled just over 10,000 units since 2011, with the Netherlands as the leading market with 5,031 Amperas registered, followed by Germany with 1,542 units, and the UK with 1,250 units registered by the end of June 2015. The Netherlands is also the top selling Volt market in Europe with 1,062 units registered through December 2014, out of about 1,750 Volts sold through 2014.

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External Links

• Official Opel Ampera website
• Official Vauxhall Ampera website

News and References

• Geneva Preview: Opel Ampera teased ahead of Swiss debut
• Opel Ampera Geneva Teaser Released
• Geneva Preview: Opel/Vauxhall Ampera officially looks better than Volt
• Opel Ampera priced from 42,900 euros ($58,718 USD!)

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