Opel reveals more details about its electric future. For example, there will be a new fully electric Insignia, but there is more interesting news. Especially in the technical field.
Opel will be a purely electric brand from 2028 and will reveal more details about what will happen in the coming years in terms of electrification. For example, it already gives a glimpse of which models will be fully electric. A new Insignia is one of them, we reported yesterday. The successor of the Crossland will also be an EV and the name Manta returns on an electric crossover. Opel also indicates that it wants to go very high with the charging speed of its electric cars.
Opel will develop and build ‘high performance batteries’ in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Batteries that will undoubtedly be used by other Stellantis brands as well, so it is relevant for more than just Opel. The ambitions do not lie. It is working on batteries that will allow 500 to 800 km of range, but even more interesting is the charging speed. That would be 32 km recharging per minute. A quick calculation shows that you would then have almost 1,000 km of driving range in half an hour of charging and that with an EV with a range of 800 km you can be recharged in roughly 25 minutes, provided the promised speed is of course maintained for a long time. With about ten minutes of charging, you theoretically have enough power on board to drive from Maastricht to Groningen.
It is not yet entirely clear when exactly such performance should be possible, but Opel says that production of the ‘high performance batteries’ should start as early as 2025. Parent company Stellantis will invest €30 billion in electrification until that year, part of which is intended for the construction of five ‘Gigafactories’ for battery production and the development of solid state batteries.
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