Opel ready to relaunch with a crossover and a compact electric

Opel seems to be the time to innovate to create a new ambitious targets in the near future. Reason for this renewal could also be that Opel will also be present in other markets outside Europe. Particular attention will be directed primarily to developing markets. Already Ampera with the French company has received several notes of praise and appreciation, but in the near future the range will be wider and more complete.

Opel Ampera bookable by end of 2011

In Rome, during the MoTechEco 2011, Exhibition of Sustainable Mobility, Opel has announced further details about the arrival of Ampera in dealerships, the first zero-emission car that will arrive in EREV type list of the German manufacturer to the end of ' current year. Propelled by an electric motor capable of developing 111 kW, the Ampera finds its source of energy in the 16 Kwh battery with an autonomy of 80 km, which can reach up to 500 if the ESA is supported by the endothermic.

Fuorisalone Milan 2011: cars protagonists

At the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, held April 12 to 17, although the cars are featured at Fuorisalone. Among the stars there are electric cars, thanks to the E-move. me, in fact the first Italian brand of products and services dedicated to the electrical mobility will attend Fuorisalone 2011 and you can test drive with a city car, personal mover, scooters and bicycles.

The event offers 15 Mercedes E-Class sedan and 5 Viano and organized the exhibition "Auto-mobile free time" to retrace the steps of the design of the car. Citroen also offers a journey between past and present of its cars, from the DS4 Evomobil and UFOs, reproductions of the Traction Avant and DS.

Pininfarina out of the joint venture VEPB

The Bolloré Group bought the stake in the company VEBP, Véhicules Electriques Pininfarina Bollore, Pininfarina. VEBP The joint venture was created in 2009 to facilitate the production of the electric Bluecar. With this budget package are moved around € 10 million of capital and will still remain the preferred supplier to Pininfarina.

Most likely, Pininfarina decided to abandon the joint venture because if Bolloré had requested an increase in capital to invest in, then Pininfarina would not have been able to cover the economic effort. This is because the 2010 budget of the Italian showed a heavy € -33.1 million, although turnover has been increasing.

• Volvo Car to take over Pininfarina Sverige (24/03/2011)
• Pininfarina names Renault's Fabio Filippini as design director (08/03/2011)
• Pininfarina will produce the Bluecar electric vehicle (11/03/2011)
• Bovet Pininfarina Cambiano Chronograph Watch (27/01/2011)
• Car design of the year goes to Land Rover and Pininfarina (03/03/2011)

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Electric cars in Italy: The Committee approved the incentives

Joined Commissions Production and Transportation of the House of Representatives have expressed support of the bill by Mr Agostino Ghiglia (PDL) and Andrea Lulli (PD). With the proposed provisions to promote the development of mobility with vehicles that produce no carbon dioxide emissions "has marked a further step towards the promotion and distribution of electric mobility in Italy.

Initiatives such as these serve to advance a thriving market of electric cars in a country like ours which is still unprepared to receive them. The next step will be to establish an interministerial technical table to try to manage the issue in a unified manner and with a single policy to suit everyone.