While the USA Boys in Blue get all kinds of muscle car based patrol cars, it looks like the German force will receive an all-electric Opel Ampera patrol car. According to GM's Deutsche branch, the electric Opel Ampera patrol car will offer the benefit of stealth, as it's less noisy than a combustion powered vehicle. At the same time, GM says the Opel Ampera patrol car will also be fast and persistent in a chase. If it will chase electric cars, we might add. We somehow doubt that an electric car would really be able to keep up with a combustion engine vehicle in a real life chase.
The Opel Ampera patrol car is powered by the same 16 kWh, lithium-ion battery as the regular version, and it also feature the petrol powered,
range extender engine. The Opel Ampera patrol car has a maximum range of 500 km, needs 9 seconds for the 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) sprint and has a top speed of 160 km/h. These unexpectedly decent performance figures of the Opel Ampera patrol car are possible thanks to the high torque output of the electric motor, 370 Nm.
