While other car brands are in line to give up ceilings on electric cars, Opel still believes that the car type is the only real solution.
Opel continues to believe that there is no way around the electric car. In fact, there is no other solution to the future in the automotive industry, the brand believes.
That's what Automotive News writes.
In an interview with the media, Opel's managing director Florian Huettl says that he still believes that the future of the brand's cars is completely electric. Understood in the sense that Opel's model range must only consist of electric cars.
Unlike many of his chief colleagues at the competitors, Florian Huettl refuses to slow down the pace with the electric cars. Even if he is actually at the head of a brand that is only one part of the Stellantis group.
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Certainly a group where the absolute top boss is ready to change his mind about electric cars if public sentiment and the political climate move in that direction.
– We believe that electric cars, for reasons we all know, are simply better: the acceleration, the agility, the absence of noise and the ability to drive without the use of fossil fuel, says Florian Huettl.
Huettl also maintains that electric cars are the only way towards CO2 neutrality. At least for the big car manufacturers. Something the parent group Stellantis aims to achieve by 2038 at the latest.
The Opel boss is also not much for hybrid cars, even though his own car brand has them on the program. He calls them an important 'transition release'.
– Every single new passenger car model after Frontera and Grandland will only be offered as electric cars, it says.
Opel, which in Denmark can only just sneak into the top 20 on the sales lists of new cars, delivered 670,000 cars worldwide in 2023. 90,000 of them were pure electric cars. That is 15 percent more than in 2022. But there is a long way up to 100 percent, which must already be a reality in 2028.
The same optimism is difficult to find in the other car brands. Ford has announced a short time ago that it will not only sell electric cars in Europe in 2030 after all. Mercedes says the same, and Volkswagen no longer believes in the idea either.
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