Opel says it has more than doubled its Ampera fleet customer base in the space of just six months, from around 700 in March to almost 2,000 in October across Europe – an increase of more than 180%.
In Germany, the Ampera’s fleet customer base increased by more than 50%, while in the Netherlands it grew by 200%, Opel said. The figures include a number of companies that have ordered up to 20 Ampera vehicles. Opel says it has also noticed an increasing trend that more and more fleet customers include the Ampera in their company car policies, so that they sit alongside conventional diesel or gasoline powered vehicles as fully usable electric alternatives.
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“Not only is the Ampera Europe’s best selling passenger electric vehicle. We now have proof that it is attracting a rapidly growing number of fleet customers,” says Opel vice president sales, marketing and aftersales, Alfred Rieck. “We are confident that this development will continue because fleet customers understand that the Ampera is one of the very few electric vehicles that is truly suitable for everyday use. Additionally, it is has significantly lower operating costs than equivalent internal combustion engine cars.”
One fleet customer for Ampera is Trigion, the subsidiary of the Western European facilities company, Facilicom. Trigion provides security services including video camera monitoring, static guards and mobile patrols.
“Trigion Security is one of the first companies in the Netherlands who deployed the Ampera. We are attracted to its very low fuel consumption,” says Martine Geurts, vice-president and director of Facilicom Service Group. “The Ampera is currently being piloted at our Trigion subsidiary and this pilot is being rolled out across the whole group as the next logical step.”
In early November the Ampera was honoured as green vehicle of the year in the United Kingdom by fleet decision-makers at the prestigious 2012 Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO) Awards.
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