Alpine brought the A110 Future prototype to the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed and had Pierre Gasly drive it up the hillclimb from July 9 through July 12. It is the first proper public look at the third-generation A110, and the first electric one.
The car Alpine took up the hill is not a finished production car. It is a running prototype on the new Alpine Performance Platform (APP) with camouflage bodywork. The purpose was to show the platform, not the design language.
The platform
APP is Alpine's own modular architecture for its next-generation sports cars. It is aluminium, with two battery packs positioned to hold a 40/60 front-to-rear weight bias. Energy is split 25% forward and 75% rearward using cell-to-pack construction. The pack casings are high-pressure die-cast aluminium and count as structural stiffness rather than dead mass.
That layout matters. Most affordable EVs put the battery in a floor tray under the passenger cabin, which is fine for a hatchback but wrong for a mid-engined sports car. Alpine has split the pack to preserve the A110's original weight distribution and driving character.
The drivetrain
- Architecture: 800V, cell-to-pack, split front/rear battery mounting
- Motors: dual rear electric motors, permanent-magnet synchronous, 21,500 rpm redline
- Powertrain electronics: 3-in-1 e-machines with silicon-carbide inverters
- Torque management: Active Torque Vectoring 2.0 across the rear axle
- Estimated output: ~480 hp (third-party estimates; Alpine has not confirmed)
The 21,500 rpm figure is aggressive by EV motor standards. Most road-car e-motors redline between 15,000 and 18,000 rpm. Alpine is pursuing high-rpm motors for the same reason ICE sports cars pursue high redlines. It lets the gearing multiply torque at low speed and lets the motor develop peak power over a wider band without needing multiple ratios.
Why Goodwood matters here
Alpine chose to reveal the platform dynamically rather than statically. Making daily hillclimb runs with a working F1 driver at the wheel is a very specific signal. This is not a design study. The car drives, the platform is real, and Alpine wants the enthusiast press to see it move, not just sit on a plinth.
The final production A110 electric is expected to launch in late 2026 with a full body reveal ahead of that.
Where it slots in the A110 story
The A110 has been on sale in its current second-generation form since 2017 with the same 1.8-litre Renault-sourced turbo four across every trim. The A110 R, A110 R 70, and A110 R Ultimae have been variant plays on that base powertrain. What the A110 Future replaces is the entire ICE lineage.
Sam has already covered the A110 R 70 and the A110 R Ultimae as the send-off trims of the current car. Their existence together with the electric prototype at Goodwood signals what Alpine is doing: winding the ICE line down with celebration variants while pushing the new electric platform forward.
The basics
| Alpine A110 Future (prototype) | |
|---|---|
| Debut | Goodwood Festival of Speed, July 9-12, 2026 |
| Platform | APP (Alpine Performance Platform), aluminium |
| Battery | 800V, cell-to-pack, split 25/75 front/rear |
| Motors | dual rear PMSM, 21,500 rpm redline |
| Estimated power | ~480 hp (third-party) |
| Torque vectoring | Active Torque Vectoring 2.0 (rear axle) |
| Driver | Pierre Gasly (F1) |
| Expected production reveal | Late 2026 |
See where the current A110 lineup sits on our Alpine models page.
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Sources: Alpine A110 FUTURE conquers Goodwood hill on global dynamic debut (Alpine Global Media); Alpine reveals A110 FUTURE ahead of Goodwood Festival of Speed premiere (Alpine Global Media); Alpine A110 Electric Mule Debuts at Goodwood With 800V Split-Battery Architecture (Tech Times); Alpine's A110 Future makes its Goodwood hill debut (Automotive World). Photography: Alpine.