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Opel to Electrify Complete Model Portfolio by 2024
Opel has taken another major step towards becoming a fully electric brand by announcing that the successor to the Opel Crossland B-SUV will be offered with an all-electric drivein2024.
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As such, every model in the German carmaker's product portfolio will be available with a batteryelectric variant as early as next year. The brand with the Blitz is committed to a fully electric product portfolioinEuropeby2028.
Today's wide range of battery-electricOpelmodels already extends from the popular Corsa Electric and Mokka Electric, to the Combo-e Life and the Zafira-e Life people carriers, totheRocksElectricquadricycle, available dependingoncountry.
These vehicles have just beenjoinedbythenewAstra Electric, sporting a range of 418km WLTP and available to order as a 5door hatch and Sports
Tourer estate in Ireland from late 2023, and they will now be followed next yearbytheall-electricsuccessors to the Crossland andGrandlandSUV.
Inaddition,battery-electric versions of the complete commercial vehicle portfolio are available, depending on country, including the Combo-e and
Vivaro-e,togetherwiththe Rocks Electric Kargo and Movano-e. Opel will thus offer 15 fully electrified models by the end of this yearalone.
The portfolio of Opel electrified vehicles features alternatives to pure battery-electric drive, powered by plug-in petrol hybridpowertrains.
The Astra GSe and the Grandland GSe ranges offer a system power output of up to 300hp and strongmaximumtorqueof up to 520 Nm, with CO2 emissions from as low as 25-28 g/km combined. Within months, 48V hybrids will join the electrified line-up, starting with the recently announced new Opel Corsa. The 74 kW/100 hp and 100 kW/136 hp engines will come with a new dualclutch automatic transmission.
The new Corsa will thus offercustomersachoiceof drives, from purely battery-electric to hybrid to highly efficient combustionengineswhichisunri- valled in this segment. In the meantime, Opel is continuing to pioneer the development of hydrogen fuelcelltransporters. The Vivaro-e-Hydrogen is already on the road in a number of European countries and a large fuel cell transporter is also scheduled to follow in 2024.
