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Renault wants to be recognized as a technology-driven sports car powerhouse. To do this, the company is relaunching Alpine – a French manufacturer created in 1955 and acquired by Renault in 1973 – as an umbrella brand for all of its high performance initiatives, notably Renault Sport Cars and Renault Sport Racing (RSR). . We already knew that the Renault Formula 1 team would use the alpine name this season. Today, however, Renault revealed that Alpine will also become a leading electric vehicle maker. The division is planning a fully electric hot hatch and a larger sports crossover, as well as a replacement for the reborn Alpine A110 sports car.
The hot hatch and crossover will use platforms developed as part of the Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi alliance. The successor to the A110, meanwhile, will be co-produced with Lotus, a British automaker now owned by Geely, the Chinese giant behind Volvo and the London Electric Vehicle Company. In A press release, Renault explained that the Alpine and Lotus teams will conduct a “full feasibility study” that will cover the design, engineering and development of an EV sports car. Lotus is already working on the Evija, a monstrous hyper electric should be released later this year.
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