Opel Ampera withdrawn from the PSA catalog for 2021
- Successor to the Opel Ampera PHEV marketed from 2011 to 2015, which was derived from the Chevrolet Volt, the all-electric Opel Ampera-e was born in 2016, while the Opel brand was still part of the GM group. The Ampera-e is in fact derived from the Chevrolet Bolt, lower segment than the Volt. All four cars were manufactured at the same production site in Lordstown, Ohio, USA, for a total of 336,000 units (including 313,000 Chevrolets and 23,000 Opels).
- Of this total, the two Ampera models did not have a strong circulation since the Ampera PHEV did not exceed 13,472 sales between 2011 and 2015, while the Ampera-e did even less well with 9,720 sales between 2016 and 2020.
- It is true that the Opel brand having been taken over by the PSA group at the end of 2017, and the French manufacturer having to pay royalties on each model sold, under an agreement on the sales of models of GM design (such as the Astra or Insignia), the PSA group did not push for the sale of this model soon to compete with the Peugeot e-208 and Opel e-Corsa of PSA design. Yet 2020 has been the best year for the Ampera-e with a volume of 3,000 sales, no doubt helped by the surge in demand for electric cars in Europe.
- After the stop of the Adam, Karl, Cascada, Zafira, all of them GM-designed, the Ampera-e is in turn removed from the PSA catalog. The GM-designed Opel Astra and Insignia will remain in 2021, but the future Astra scheduled for 2021 will be of PSA design, like the recent Opel Corsa, Opel Combo and Opel Mokka.
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