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Sports Car Alpine Builds on Lightweight Electric Sports Cars—With Combustion Engine Option

From Hanno Boblenz/SP-X | Translated by AI 4 min Reading Time

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Alpine is building a whole family of electric sports cars based on the successor to the A110. They are supposed to be light, work on the racetrack and perhaps still smell of gasoline.

The Renault subsidiary has presented a new brand strategy(Image: Alpine)
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An electric sports car weighing less than 3,300 lb, designed for fast laps on the Nordschleife and with a sound that does not come from loudspeakers, but from the drive itself: The engineers at Alpine have set their sights high for the next generation of the Alpine A110. Officially, the brand is consistently focusing on electric drive. "With minor adjustments, the new platform can also accommodate a combustion engine with transmission and tank," says Alpine boss Philippe Krief. There are no concrete plans for this. However, the company is prepared for this if required. In this way, the French are leaving themselves a back door for markets in which sports cars still have to smell of gasoline.

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