The subsequent-generation Alpine A110 is being designed as an electric-only automobile, however the structure of its new platform means it may acquire a petroleum engine sooner or later.
Final week, the Renault-owned sports activities automotive maker revealed the Alpine Efficiency Platform (APP), which is able to underpin the next-generation A110 and reportedly the Renault 5 Turbo 3E.
APP makes use of an 800V electrical structure for quick DC charging. The platform may also be outfitted with a motor for every rear wheel, and an lively torque vectoring system that adjusts the quantity of torque output at every rear wheel each 10 milliseconds.
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Just like the Lotus Elise and Evora, the APP structure has a bonded and riveted aluminium construction for top ranges of structural rigidity and low weight.
Whereas most devoted EV platforms have a single battery pack within the ground, Alpine opted for a extra difficult — and probably barely heavier — two battery structure with one pack underneath the bonnet, and a bigger battery located behind the passenger cell.
This, in response to Alpine, permits the motive force to take a seat nearer to the bottom in a “low-slung place with a vertical steering wheel and all the important thing devices inside simple sight and attain”.
Philippe Krief, Alpine’s CEO, instructed Autocar that with “some small modifications on the platform we will accommodate an engine, gearbox, gasoline tank and all you want” as a result of the bigger battery lives the place the petrol engine resides in a standard mid-engine structure.
Though Mr Krief didn’t specify the capability of the A110’s batteries, he expects the automotive to have a WLTP vary of round 550km.
Whereas the brand new A110’s structure supplies “a chance” to engineer petrol variants, these would seemingly solely be offered in some markets.
In line with Mr Krief, the A110’s market section is about 350,000 automobiles yearly, round 50 per cent of which go to the US. This means the model could be eager to re-enter the US market, despite the fact that in July 2025 Alpine introduced it was shelving its US launch indefinitely on account of tariff uncertainty.
Whereas a enterprise into the US could be again on the playing cards, deliberate SUVs to take a seat above the A390 have been axed.
Mr Krief instructed the British publication the model will as a substitute concentrate on creating fashions primarily based on the A110, together with a 2+2 variant, probably with batteries positioned underneath the ground.
