Details about the powertrain ares till scant, but the Alpha5 is said to feature a dual motor for an all-wheel drive setup. The expected electric range is 300 miles and a 0 to 60 mph time in less than 3 seconds. Inside, digitalization takes over. You have two large LCD screens, yet one of them resembles the analog design of the DMC-12. Another cool gimmick is the DeLorean Sense – a connected band. The techy band can be gifted to your loved ones and it will display their heartbeat on the console screen.

Furthermore, the Alpha5 comes with its own social network. After you import the contacts from your phone, their location will be pinned on a live map to remind you if someone lives nearby. It encourages human connections, but it remains to be seen how it works with privacy regulations.

The Alpha5 will go on sale in 2024 and there’s no pricing yet. Due to the new IRA law, DeLorean hopes to select a US-based manufacturing partner to qualify for federal EV credits.

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However, the online premiere will happen a few days earlier, on August 18. Mind you, we won’t be seeing a production car, but rather a prototype styled by Italdesign. The famous Italian design house also penned the DMC-12 with its spectacular gullwing doors. A new teaser released today provides a glimpse of the EV’s rear end, which sends a bit of an Audi vibe.

Speaking of the gullwing doors, you can already see the cutouts in the roof for the doors that open upwards in the same vein as the original, ill-fated sports car. Hopefully, the DMC-12’s spiritual successor will be more successful than its short-lived predecessor. The new concept car will go by the official name of EVolve and is expected to offer more than 300 miles (483 kilometers) of range.

The electric sports car won’t be an all-DeLorean effort as aside from externalizing the styling to Italdesign, the EVolve will use batteries and electric motors from a third party. Don’t expect hypercar performance, but DeLorean Motors Reimagined chief executive office does say it’s been developed for “people who want to drive.” Since the newly founded company is small, the initial plan is to sell the car in low numbers. It’ll ride on a bespoke platform with a design that’ll make compromises in terms of aerodynamics for the sake of style.

It’s perfectly normal to remain skeptical even with new teaser images coming out, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed that this car will be more than just a pretty rendering.

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Thankfully, Car and Driver sat down and had a chat with the chief executive officer of the new company known as DeLorean Motors Reimagined. Having previously worked at Tesla and Volvo, it’s safe to say Joost de Vries knows a thing or two about the car industry. He mentioned the upcoming EV will have a range of more than 300 miles (483 kilometers), which should be the norm among electric cars nowadays.

While the battery pack and the electric motors will be sourced from a third party, the company intends to develop its own platform for the reborn automotive icon. Italdesign is taking care of the styling, which will include the spectacular gullwing doors of its ancestor. As to how it will look, Joost de Vries told C&D the car’s appearance will illustrate how it might’ve looked “had it been around for the last 40 years.”

The company’s representative specified it won’t deliver hypercar performance, but it will be tailored to “people who want to drive.” Being a new company, DeLorean Motors Reimagined initially aims for a low-volume production run. The world premiere will take place at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, which is scheduled for August.

There are still a lot of technical specifications we don’t know about the new DeLorean, but we’re hoping it will be a more successful product than its source of inspiration. Some of you will recall the original DMC-12 was a short-lived vehicle. The aluminum-bodied sports car with its V6 engine from the Peugeot-Renault-Volvo alliance was sold in the United States only between the 1981 to 1983 model years.

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The original DMC-12 was an expensive failure, in part due to its underpowered gasoline engine. Hopefully, the new electric transplant will solve the issue. It’s being teased by Italdesign, the very same Italian car design house that penned the already classic model in the early 1980s. None other than iconic automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro drew the Belfast-built car, which gained quite the reputation for its poor build quality.

Details about its modern-day equivalent are shrouded in mystery, although we do know it will be built by the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) as its ancestor. The company is based in Humble, Texas and is owned by Stephen Wynne, an engineer born in Liverpool. One of the hashtags posted on social media is #DeLoreanEVolved, which may or may not be the car’s official name. We do know it’s an electric vehicle as denoted by the namesake moniker.

It’s unclear upon which platform the new EV will ride, although Italdesign did join forces with Williams Advanced Engineering in 2021 to work on a modular architecture. It will be good for as much as 1,341 horsepower (1,000 kilowatts) and batteries varying in capacity from 104 to 160 kWh. Fitted with the latter, an electric car could cover as much as 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) before having to recharge.

The brief teaser video shows the new zero-emissions car will stay true to its predecessor by adopting gullwing doors. That EVX platform we mentioned will accommodate wheelbases varying in size from 2,900 to 3,100 mm (114.1 to 122 inches), but neither DeLorean nor Italdesign are saying the reborn DMC-12 will ride on that bespoke electric car architecture.

We should learn about the retro-flavored EV in the following months as the official reveal is slated to take place in 2022.

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