Opel Ampera is Europe’s best selling passenger electric vehicle with a European segment share of over 20 percent, according to Opel sales figures from May 2012. Opel says that in the Netherlands, the Ampera has taken more than 77 percent of the passenger EV market share in May, making it the undisputed leader of its segment by a wide margin [...]

After winning the “Car of the Year 2012” award, the Opel Ampera has now also won the 13. International Monte Carlo Rally for electric cars and alternative propulsion in which it competed for the first time. Four Opel Ampera EVs ranked among the top 10 vehicles. The French duo Bernard Darniche and Joseph Lambert managed to beat the entire competitive [...]

Opel unveiled a stylish and environmentally-friendly urban design concept at the 2012 Geneva Motor show: the RAD e bike. The RAD e bike is aimed primarily at urban people at a time when e-bikes are predicted to play an increasing role in future integrated urban transport concepts. It follows Opel’s design philosophy “sculptural artistry meets German precision” and incorporates boomerang [...]

This is the first official image of Opel’s RAD e concept vehicle, which will be shown for the first time on the company’s stand at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Opel says that the RAD e will be the first e-bike to be built around automotive construction and production principles, plus that it carries much of Opel’s typical design [...]

Opel has revealed their ‘RAK e’ urban electric car concept ahead of it’s debut at next week’s 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Opel is the latest carmaker to outline its future vision for affordable personal urban mobility. First Audi unveiled their Urban EV concepts, and then came Volkswagen’s Nils - a single-seater EV with the same open-wheeler formula. Opel says that the RAK [...]

Opel and the car rental company Europcar have announced an agreement to introduce the Opel Ampera as a rental car throughout Europe. The two companies are joining forces to broaden the range of people that will be able to access electric vehicles, capitalising on the Ampera’s launch. The goal is to deploy the first vehicles in Europcar rental outlets in [...]

GM Europe has revealed production version of the Opel Ampera ahead of its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show this week. The Opel Ampera is GM’s version of the Chevrolet Volt for European market, but with a significantly higher price tag. The Opel Ampera goes on sale later this year with starting price at €42,900 in most European markets [...]

The Opel Ampera passed an important milestone Friday, April 23, when the first pre-production Model Year 2012 Ampera rolled off the line at GM’s Pre-Production Operations assembly line in Warren, Michigan. Assembly workers will build more pre-production Amperas in the coming months. These pre-production vehicles will not be sold at dealerships, but used instead for testing and validating the production [...]