![]() ![]() The basic premise is that 80% of Europeans drive less than 50km a day on average. Studying the electrification of the automobile reveals a murky world of claim and counter claim, but GM says the technology underpinning the US-market Volt and Euro-spec Ampera (they’re the same car, essentially) makes it an extended range electric vehicle. ![]() ![]() Rather, the petrol motor is used purely to generate electricity, which always drives the road wheels. Unlike existing hybrid cars, which use petrol engines to drive the wheels when the battery gives up the ghost, the Ampera never uses the internal combustion engine for direct propulsion. The Ampera uses Opel/Vauxhall’s small 74bhp 1.4 gasoline engine mated to a 16kWh lithium ion battery and an electric motor. So what’s the new tech on the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera?Ī quick recap of the details we already know, and then a few details that we didn’t. ![]()
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