Opel Ampera-e, U.S. election.

Video tip: For the first more detailed video test drive of the Opel Ampera-e, Ralf Hannappel, Opel’s Director Electrification Europe, takes the wheel and during the ride, walks us through some of the EV’s details.
youtube.com via insideevs.com

Reading tips: Bloomberg believes that the new U.S. government won’t have much influence of EV subsidies, as they are capped at 200,000 units per manufacturer – a mark Tesla won’t reach until 2018. Meanwhile, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers didn’t waste any time asking the new administration to ease emission rules. And looking at who is up for running the U.S. environment ministry, there will certainly be more coal and petrol in the future…
bloomberg.com (subsidies), insideevs.com (emission rules)