Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars

Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by tinco on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:02PM (#20422260)

Are you sure the Chevrolet Bolt is not available where you live? Here in The Netherlands they're everywhere as Opel Ampera's. The latest one has 420km range I think.

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by codeulike on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:42PM (#20424773)

The Ampera is a plug-in hybrid, I think? And the Ampera-e is the pure EV version that is basically the Bolt?

Here's an interesting article: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1115366_opel-to-swap-am...

[The new electric Corsa] will supplant the larger Ampera-e electric car, which launched last year to great enthusiasm in some markets but has since appeared to be in very limited supply, according to numerous complaints by interested buyers.

Just 1,971 units of the Opel Ampera-e were sold throughout Europe, according to JATO Dynamics.

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by codeulike on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:09PM (#20422302)

Yep, probably because UK is a rhd country

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by AstaManasta on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:00PM (#20423387)

I’ve seen quite a few Vauxhall Amperas in the UK. RHD of course seeing as they are Vauxhall.

Look good except for the weird plastic inserts on the allow wheels.

They were around £40k or something though which ain’t cheap

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by codeulike on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:42PM (#20424780)

I belive the Ampera was a hybrid, Ampera-e was the pure electric version (and hence the Bolt), and it never came to the UK.

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