General Motors has announced the price and started taking orders for the 2011 Opel Ampera, the European version of the Chevrolet Volt. The ex-showroom price of the Opel Ampera is €42,900 inclusive of 19 percent VAT. That’s about $58,718 at current exchange rates.
So what would they call the Chevrolet Volt - the revolutionary plug-in hybrid that might save GM in the US? The Opel Ampera.