Although sales have picked up in 2025, it is still lying for the European electric car industry. A number of manufacturers who were crystal clear in their offensive electric car ambitions three or four years ago have one one by one had to reassess their plans.
Volvo, Mercedes, Audi and several others with stated goals to only create electric cars in a few years have made a retreat – with the main reason that demand is not good enough.
Now Opel has also chosen to reverse his previous decision to invest solely on electric cars. That’s what the German newspaper Bild writes.
No longer pure electric car brand in 2028
Opel was early on to proclaim that they should only make electric cars from 2028. So it will not be.
Instead, they confirm that they will continue to offer cars with internal combustion engines – both new and established models – in the years to come.
The change is justified by lower electric car demand than expected, as well as uncertainty about both the electric car market and where to retrieve the batteries.
A planned battery factory in Kaiserslautern from the parent company Stellantis was shelved last year, thus disappearing an important basis for Opel’s electric car strategy. The factory is scheduled to create 600,000 electric car batteries a year.
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Hybrid: Sales of hybrid cars are growing and are more important than electric cars in most European countries. It now takes the Opel consequence of. In the illustration you see an Opel Astra with hybrid driveline. Photo: Stellantis
Promises to become more climate -friendly
According to a spokesman for the company, it all boils down to the fact that Opel will be flexible in the meeting with the market: Electric cars should not be the only offer from Opel after 2028, if customers want other solutions.
At the same time, the spokesman emphasizes that Opel still has clear goals to cut emissions and become more climate -friendly.
In practice, important models such as Corsa, Mokka, Astra, Grandland and Frontera will also be offered with combustion engines and hybrid solutions in the future, in parallel with electrical editions.
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BEST SELLER: At the moment, Frontera is the model from Opel that sells the best in Norway, but there are not especially many sales. Photo: Broom
Weak sales in Norway
In Norway, Opel is relevant with electric variants of all these models, but sales are generally low. The best -selling model so far this year is the cheap car Frontera, which is registered in 194 copies as of August 26.
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Opel is part of the Stellantis Group, which also includes Citroën, Peugeot and Fiat in its brand portfolio. The company has been struggling heavily lately, which you can read more about in the case below:
