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Vauxhall Ampera joins the club
The range-extended Vauxhall Ampera is to join the world’s biggest car sharing network as part of a six month pilot partnership. Vauxhall’s newly launched Ampera joins Zipcar’s self-service fleet in London, where the car club’s members will be able, from today, to reserve an Ampera online through the club’s website or using their smart phones [...]
Opel-Vauxhall aims to be fuel economy leader with new engines
Having set itself the lofty goal of becoming an industry leader in terms of fuel consumption, emissions, torque and noise reduction, Opel-Vauxhall is set to renew its engine range during the next 12 months by introducing three brand new petrol and diesel engine families. Heading the list will be a turbocharged 1598cc, four-cylinder petrol engine [...]
New Astra to offer 12 per cent fuel economy improvement
Keep your eyes peeled for a new Opel/Vauxhall Astra OPC (pictured) – which is set to offer both improved torque and improved fuel economy. Though many believe that power and fuel economy don’t go hand in hand, the Astra OPC appears to buck that trend by featuring a turbocharged, direct-injection 1998 cm3 all-aluminium engine that [...]
Volt and Ampera win eco-prize
The Chevrolet Volt has been named Eco Car of the Year by Diesel Car magazine. The range-extended model won the prize along with sister-model, the Vauxhall Ampera. Despite using petrol generators, the models beat the diesel hybrid Citroen DS5 into second place for the prize. While Citroen might bemoan this anomaly, the French car maker [...]
Manufacturer Spotlight: Vauxhall
Where we stand: May, 2012 The Vauxhall brand of General Motors has been the second largest selling motoring brand in the UK for more than two decades. Its vehicles are largely identical to those of the Opel brand, which is sold across Europe, with most designed in Germany and produced across Germany, Spain and Poland, [...]
Is Vauxhall’s Ampera the missing piece in the EV jigsaw?
It is 2012’s Car of the Year and the Police want it as a pimped-out crime fighting machine, but does Vauxhall’s Ampera hold the key to opening motorists’ hearts to 100% electric motoring? Maybe. There is plenty to suggest that the plug-in range-extender could appeal to those turned off by electric vehicles’ limited range or [...]
Vauxhall teams with British Gas for Ampera charging solution
The soon-to-launch Vauxhall Ampera range-extended electric car will now be available with a fast-charge kit that enables the car to achieve a full charge in just four hours, thanks to a new agreement between Vauxhall and British Gas. The car maker will offer all Ampera owners a British Gas Home Charging solution which includes installation [...]
Opel Ampera achieves orders milestone
It has just been named as the European Car of the Year (see article) and now the cousin of the Chevrolet Volt, the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera, has rattled up an impressive 7,000 orders. The numbers have surpassed even the most optimistic expectations for this point – it had initially set a sales target of 10,000 units [...]
Volt and Ampera named European Car of the Year
The Opel/Vauxhall Ampera and Chevrolet Volt have jointly been named the ‘European Car of the Year 2012’ as voted for by a panel of 53 motoring journalist judges from 23 European countries. The winner was announced on the eve of the opening day of the Geneva Motor Show, with the Ampera/Volt being picked from a [...]
Police investigates Ampera’s crime fighting prowess
Vauxhall has demonstrated how an electric vehicle could play a contributing role in helping police forces tackle crime by 2015. Kitted out with a raft of technology specially designed to fight crime, Vauxhall’s Ampera was shown off at the Police & Security Conference in Farnborough on 31 January on the Home Office’s Centre of Applied [...]
