Opel is on a mission to show the Ampera-e can be a quick little bugger if need be. To help hit the point home, the brand has put together a drag race and captured it on video.
The Opel Ampera-e lines up against an Opel Corsa OPC, Adam R2, Astra TCR and Insignia OPC. Each vehicle quick in its own right, but the two rally machines will surely decimate the battery powered Ampera-e right? Incorrect, friends.
To 30 meters, or roughly 98 feet, the Ampera-e scoots away from the Opel performance machines in lightning quick fashion. Granted, 98 feet isn’t very far, and it wouldn’t actually hold up in a proper race, but the Ampera-e can certainly be down for some fun should it be tasked in doing so.
Have a look at the video right up above.
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The instantaneous efficiency of electric motors as one has to think it’s just a matter of time before Chevrolet’s Corvette will be built using General Motors’ Skateboard concept platform from a few years ago using an electric motors at each wheel with a Hydrogen fuel cell providing the electricity to eliminate the weight of a battery to achieve high performance and range.
Performance has never been the issue it has been the ability to refuel faster and or to find a place to refuel.
I have driven a Hydrogen car and it is great till you need to find a place to fill and how long it takes to fill. With the fuel nearly 300 below zero too people would have to learn to do things a little differently.
As for batteries they are still the stumbling blocks. The time it takes has come down on charging but it is still a life style changer.
Also in a car like the Corvette. I expect it would remain a combination of Hybrid and gas. Fast is one thing but the sound is a key part of the elements you feel and hear in a performance car.
While Ferrari has made a hybrid it still has a howling V12 in it.
The only reason they are adding these elements for the most parts is survival of the breed and that is why the Corvette will see it at some point.
But till more filling stations are made and fill times cut Hydrogen is on the slow track. Investment in the needed things to support them is needed as it has fallen behind pure electric.
Even in the electric racing they have fast cars but it takes two cars to complete a race.