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An Opel dealer in North Rhine-Westphalia: only electric in Europe from 2028
Photo: Christoph Hardt / imago images / Future Image
The car manufacturer Opel wants to offer only electric cars in Europe by 2028.
The end date for internal combustion engines was announced by Opel boss Michael Lohscheller at a presentation by the parent company Stellantis.
In addition, Opel will be launched on the Chinese market as a purely electric brand, said Lohscheller.
For the middle of this decade, a new edition of the classic sports car "Manta" is planned as an electric car.
"We will reinvent the manta in the middle of the decade," said Lohscheller.
The electric Manta had already made headlines as a design study.
The Franco-Italian car company Stellantis wants to put more than 30 billion euros in electric cars and hybrid models by 2025.
By then, almost all models of the group with its 14 car brands should be electrified, said CEO Carlos Tavares.
Five new battery factories planned
The parent company wants to generate more than 70 percent of its sales in Europe with so-called low-emission vehicles by 2030, and more than 40 percent in the USA. For this, the car company wants to build five battery factories. "The transformation phase is a wonderful opportunity to reset the clock and start a new race," said Tavares.
In Germany, too, the era of the combustion engine is coming to an end.
The technology still has five years, according to Ingolstadt, for example.
The Volkswagen subsidiary Audi does not want to bring any new gasoline or diesel engines onto the market from 2026.
Even the controversial hybrid vehicles, which can drive electrically but rarely do so, should no longer roll off the assembly line.
According to media reports, the last premiere of a combustion model will be a model from the Q series in 2026, which will be sold until the beginning of the 2030s.
From a global point of view, the German manufacturers are moving in line with expectations.
For example, the Swedish manufacturer Volvo, which has long been part of a Chinese group, only wants to build electric cars from 2030.
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