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Opel/Vauxhall Ampera<br />
Are we changing our Prius?<br />
which can allow for extending the distance that the vehicle can<br />
cover to up to 310 miles.<br />
The equipment that this car uses is state of the art. The Vauxhall<br />
Ampera has a 150 PS electric drive unit. Unlike other electric<br />
cars, the drive unit has <strong>no</strong> step gears and <strong>no</strong> direct mechanical<br />
connection with the engine.<br />
As mentioned earlier the battery in this car is different from<br />
other electric cars and much improved. The Vauxhall Ampera has<br />
a lithium ion battery pack that consists of 288 individual lithium<br />
ion cells as against the standard nickel metal hydride batteries in<br />
the conventional electric cars use. The new type of battery is able<br />
CAR<br />
to store much more power than the former and hence improves<br />
the performance of this car. Furthermore, a<strong>no</strong>ther advantage<br />
of using the Lithium ion batteries is that they do <strong>no</strong>t lose power<br />
when <strong>no</strong>t in use and thus can retain power more efficiently.<br />
Thus it can be inferred from the above that the Vauxhall Ampera<br />
is a revolutionary electric car. It with its advanced and in<strong>no</strong>vative<br />
tech<strong>no</strong>logy and equipment possesses a huge edge from other<br />
electric cars of its category. The Vauxhall Ampera is certainly<br />
worth giving a try. It brings to us the advantages of electric cars,<br />
the silence and the cleanness and also minimizes the shortcomings.<br />
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