Alpine just showed us the A110 Future.
It’s coming to Goodwood next week. You probably know the drill by now, Goodwood is the place for leaks disguised as premieres. This isn’t the car you’ll buy at the dealer. It is a development mule. A skeleton wearing a borrowed coat.
It appears to wear a modified version of outgoing A110 bodies.
Look closely at the front bumper. More aggressive than the current model. The back? Blockier. There’s a charging port mounted on the side. That’s new. They’ve also slapped a transparent, quick-release hood on the chassis so the engineers can watch the machinery while moving. The front track looks wider. A hint of planted stability.
Alpine won’t say much yet. Silence is part of the game. But they did drop a heavy claim. The next A110 aims to be the “world’s first true EV sports car” not just a conversion. It sits on a new modular aluminum architecture called the Alpine Performance Platform.
One platform. Multiple cars. Expect a roadster based on this chassis. Also a four-seat A310 coupe. The ecosystem is expanding.
Here is the technical bit that matters.
Two battery packs. Not one big heavy slab. Alpine broke them up to hit a 40:60 weight distribution. They want the balance of a traditional sports car. The electric kind usually weighs like an anchor in the center. Not this time. Or so they claim.
The system runs on 800-volt architecture. High energy density cells. The goal? Reduce weight. Reduce charging time. Speed up the stop-and-go rhythm of ownership.
Power flows to the back only. A new 3-in-1 rear e-axis housing dual electric motors. No front drive unit. Torque will be instant. Control ultra-fast. Exceptional, in their words.
Can you have a soul without a combustion engine’s noise? Maybe. Maybe not. The engineering promises performance. The rest? That’s up to us to decide.
What happens when the mechanical feedback is replaced by algorithmic precision?
