2028 Proves Unreistic
Opel is Temporarily Abandoning its Goal of Selling Only Electric Cars from 2028 Onrives. Opel does not want to give a new date.
Since 2021, Opel Has Been Determined and Crystal Clear: From 2028, Only New Electric Opels Will Be Sold And The Brand Has Always Maintined this. But now the Stellantis Brand is going back on that. “We will continue to offer Hybrid Technology After 2028,” Huettl Said at the IAA in Munich in a Conversation with journalists. “It has bone a strategic consultation. We see that the market is not developing as quickly as we anticipated in the late 2010s. So we have updated our planning. In addition to evs, we will continue to build hybrids and plugin hybrids after 2028.”
The Market Isn’t Big Enough
“It is an act of realism,” Says the Opel Boss. “We remain committed to an ev-only future. We are continuously to put all our energy into developing affordable electric cars. But on the road to an electric future, you have to take into account the customs, suppliers and dealers and it turns out your 2028 is not realistic.”
It is a decision that was not tasks lightly. “I have the responsibility for a 125-year-old fire and I take that seriously. It is my job to constantly check Whether the decisions we take the right ours. The date of 2028 was set at the time with the time of that time, with the expensive Decide that you as a brand will continue with electric cars, you have to be sure that the market is big enough for that.
Huettl Still Sees The Demand for EVS Increasing and Opel and the Industry, Accordination to Him, Are Still On The Way To A Fully Electric ERA. “But that won happen until everyone is ready.”
No guilty party
The Opel CEO does not want to point a finger at anyone for Falling Short of Expectations. “It Helps when the charging infrastructure is in order. People have to be able to see for themelves that it is in order. They have to see when they drive to the South of France that there are sufficient charging options. The prices of electricity also. Governments also opportunities to stimulate, which is Always Better than Forbidding.
‘Life isn’t Linear’
That deadline of 2028 was set at the time by Huettl’s predecessor Michael Lohscheller. He is now CEO at polestar and this week in Conversation with Trade Journal Automotive News was again critical of the manufacturers who want to tinker with the ev Deadline. “It punishes huge those who have invested. I have personally bone Involved for years in the discussion about the ban on ice cars in 2035. Now it is not going linearly. Such Things Happen. Life is not linear,” Said Lohscheller. He made similar statements earlier in conversation with car week.
New Corsa
At the IAA, Opel Showed the Corsa Gse Vision Gran Turismo which Hints at the New Corsa. Accordance to huettl, that will be an electric car, for which no other powertrains will be available. He Mentions 25,000 euros as a Possible Starting Price.
Stellantis
Opel’s Parent Company Stellantis is also Abandoning Goals. Reuters Reports That the Amitious ‘Dare Forward 2030’ Plan from 2022 is Partly Being Abandoned, So That The Parent Company of, Among Others, Opgeot and Citroën May and Will also Cars with Combustion Engines in Europe After 2030.