{"id":50319,"date":"2023-05-23T08:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50319"},"modified":"2023-05-23T08:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:42:56","slug":"lotus-and-renault-no-longer-co-developing-an-all-electric-alpine-sports-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50319","title":{"rendered":"Lotus and Renault no longer co-developing an all-electric Alpine sports coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Niche performance automakers Lotus Cars and Renault Group<\/a> subsidiary Alpine have announced that after two years, they are no long co-developing an all-electric sports coupe that was slotted to replace the combustion-dependent Alpine A110. Here\u2019s the latest. <\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s start with Alpine. The automaker\u2019s history dates back to the 1950s, working consistently with fellow French company Renault until the latter wholly-acquired it in the early 1970s. For decades, the brand focused primarily on branded competition cars for Renault before eventually ceasing production in 1995.<\/p>\n

In 2017, however, infamous Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn announced the Alpine badge would officially be revived alongside its renowned A110 model. Ghosn would be ousted, but his plans for Alpine would continue on without him. <\/p>\n

The marque was spun out\u00a0into its own business<\/a>\u00a0unit in 2021 and signed\u00a0a memorandum of understanding with Lotus Cars<\/a>\u00a0to develop EVs \u2013 including an all-electric replacement for the A110. While we\u2019ve heard plenty of EV news<\/a> from Lotus and even Alpine parent company Renault, we haven\u2019t seen much progress in the co-development of a Lotus\/Alpine sports coupe as promised.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ve learned those two partners are abandoning the project, but that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they\u2019re done collaborating.<\/p>\n

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Lotus\u2019 Eletre SUV, whose 800V architecture coul;d still be used by Alpine for other EV models \/ Credit: Lotus Cars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lotus and Alpine nix sports car plans, but remain friends<\/h2>\n

According to an email <\/a>from Lotus sent to Automotive News Europe<\/em> on Monday, the automaker has decided to exit the join development of an electric sports car with Alpine, adding it is a \u201cmutual decision reached amicably.\u201d<\/p>\n

This decision follows news out of Bloomberg<\/em> last week that Renault is considering using its own internal technology<\/a> to build Alpine brand EVs, rather than rely on Lotus and its majority owner, Geely. Lotus said otherwise, to an extent, in Monday\u2019s statement, leaving the door open for \u201cother opportunities\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n

With the support of Renault and the optimism from Lotus (at least publicly), Alpine has two large automotive innovators in contacts list, but the latter still makes a lot of sense as a potential suitor. In January of this year, Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi shared that the US market is a serious target and the company intends to bring two new electric SUVs to the states <\/a>by 2027 or 2028.<\/p>\n

Rossi described the models as a midsize SUV and an even larger option, positioned similarly to the the\u00a0Porsche Macan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cayenne Coupe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If Alpine is trying to compete with Porsche SUVs and make them electric, it might want to consider talking to Lotus. The company has already developed the Eletre SUV<\/a> and has a D-segment SUV in the pipeline for 2025. Not to mention it\u2019s openly looking for partners to scale its 800V architecture and build additional EVs.<\/p>\n

Alpine\u2019s immediate focus will be on delivering the Renault 5 Alpine, described as a \u201chot hatch\u201d version of the upcoming 5 EV from Renault, in 2024. The automaker has also promised a bespoke, all-electric compact SUV in 2025, tentatively called the GT. <\/p>\n

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Niche performance automakers Lotus Cars and Renault Group subsidiary Alpine have announced that after two years, they are no long co-developing an all-electric sports coupe that was slotted to replace the combustion-dependent Alpine A110. Here\u2019s the latest. Let\u2019s start with Alpine. The automaker\u2019s history dates back to the 1950s, working consistently with fellow French company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}