One of Britain’s most popular cars has gone electric.

The Vauxhall Corsa-e is now available to pre-order and the first 500 customers to place an order will receive a free home charging kit when they take delivery.

Vauxhall hope that the Corsa-e will “normalise electric car ownership, as you’d expect from a car wearing such a familiar badge”.

How fast is the Corsa-e 0-62 time?

0-62 can be accomplished in 8.1 seconds which is an impressive figure and should encourage those addicted to speed not to turn their back on the stylish car. However, it’s not as fast as the LEAF which can do 0-62 in under 8 seconds (but is £6,000 more!)

The Corsa-e has a top speed of 93 mph.