Alpine marketing director Bruce Pillard has previously told Autocar: “The A110 is limited in volume because it’s a two-seater, and we know that adding two more seats in a car will make a huge difference.”
A key selling point for the A310 will be its lightness, made possible by the new Alpine Performance Platform (APP). The scalable architecture will be used first by the new A110 next year and has been developed exclusively for Alpine’s future sports EVs.
More mainstream models, such as the A290 and A390, will use variations of platforms from within the Renault Group.
Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo has claimed the APP will allow the electric A110 to be “lighter than a comparable car with a combustion engine”, despite the penalty incurred by weighty battery packs.
For reference, the current A110 is one of the lightest cars in series production, at 1102kg – a billing that Alpine wants its cars to retain in the electric era.
Innovative power management software, in the form of active torque vectoring, will also be used to give the “driving dynamic of a lightweight car” and counteract the dynamic penalty of a several-hundred-kilogram weight gain, said Alpine CEO Philippe Krief.
