General Motors has officially confirmed that the first electric Opel models will be built in the U.S. and that will enter the market in early 2012, following that ultimately electric models to be manufactured in Germany.

Peter Carl Forester, director of General Motors Europe, confirmed since March that an Opel division, will launch two new electric vehicles, one based on the concept Flextreme, and the other will be slightly larger and more spacious. Forester now reveal that the first electric Opel models will be built in the U.S. and that the price will be higher than 10,000 euros petrol versions.
The new car will use the E-Flex, GM, the Chevrolet Volt used, carwhich can be purchased in the U.S. in 2010. Opel versions of the model Volt will not enter into sales than in early 2012 and is likely to be constructed at the same factory is built where the current Volt. It is possible that GM Volt to introduce the model and the European market along with other Chevrolet car line, before launching electric models from Opel.
Eventually General Motors will build and electric cars in Germany Opel E-Flex. The cars will be built on the same platform as the Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze and next-generation Opel Astra.