New Opel Grandland celebrated its world premiere in Eisenach

In the last few hours, Opel has lifted the curtain on its latest version and showed the first images of Nuova Opel Grandland. Meanwhile, the next generation of Opel’s top SUV is celebrating its world premiere at the Eisenach plant in Thuringia, where Opel CEO Florian Huettl, together with Jörg Escher, managing director of the Eisenach plant, and chief engineer Dirk Kaminski, presented the new Opel Grandland to employees and media representatives. Later, guests and journalists were able to see the modern production of Grandland during a factory tour.

New Opel Grandland: The ultimate SUV celebrates its world premiere at the Eisenach plant in Thuringia

“The new Opel Grandland is completely ‘made in Germany’. It will come off the Eisenach production line only. To achieve this, we have transformed this location into a “real power plant” in recent months, with a battery shop and a production plant where our SUV “The new Grandland will be fully electric for the first time and will further expand our range of electric vehicles. Let’s give the signal starting today,” he told reporters Florian Huettl, CEO of Opel.

Jörg Escher, managing director of the Eisenach factory, he added: “The Eisenach team accepted together the great challenge of automotive transformation and carried it out with exceptional dedication. I would like to thank all employees for their tireless dedication and good performance. And I am sure that the new Grandland will also reach customers in the known quality of the state of up from Eisenach from the start.

In addition to the hybrid system, the new Opel Grandland will also be launched for the first time as a battery-free, zero-emissions Grandland Electric. A new SUV It is the first Opel model based on a modern platform Between STLA, designed specifically for electric battery structures and now in use in Eisenach. Thanks to the new design, especially the flat battery pack with a battery capacity of up to 98 kWh, the new generation electric motor and other energy-saving features, the new Grandland Electric can travel up to approx. 700 kilometers without emissions according to WLTP.

Making Eisenach factory, in constant development since its inception in 1992, suitable for the future production of electric models, the company has invested 130 million euros in the site. This led to major changes in production. For example, changes have been made to the body and the final assembly, which makes it possible to produce cars based on the multi-energy platform and the Central STLA platform. In addition, the entire transport system has been revised and improved, the body shop has been fully automated and many modern camera systems have been installed at various locations for detailed inspections.

A new battery shop has also been created, where Grandland electric battery packs are assembled on site. Special high voltage specialists are trained for this work. Eisenach was able to use the experience of his colleagues from Rüsselsheim. There is already such a battery shop at Opel headquarters, which is part of the production of Opel Astra Electric and Opel Astra Sports Tourer Electric.

It fits perfectly with the new electric Opel Grandland with its battery pack that Eisenach plans to start building this year with its own solar park to provide electricity. The plant will be produced with green electricity using photovoltaics on an area of ​​about 14 hectares. In addition to the 20 megawatt photovoltaic park, the heat supply of the plant in the future will be supported by a 1.5 megawatt heat pump. A gradual transition to renewable energy also helps ensure that the plant is well positioned for the future.

And in line with the company’s strategy to consistently reduce carbon 2 emissions in every sector, the supply chain in the Thuringian region has also been transformed. In the future, the new Opel Grandland will increasingly be delivered to customers via the plant’s rail connections of Deutsche Bahn. Especially long-distance travel, such as to Turkey and England, will be done by rail.