Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio EV due with 1000hp

The Alfa Romeo Giulia will likely be reborn as an EV with as much as 1000bhp and a variety of 435 miles, the Italian company’s CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato has showed.

Set to adapt from its standard saloon form to hide more than one segments, the brand new Giulia is predicted to reach across the heart of the last decade, not providing ICE energy as Alfa Romeo pushes to supply a only EV vary by way of 2027.

Energy will get started at close to 345bhp, with the extra robust Veloce providing round 790bhp. A hardcore Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifolio variant may be showed, providing “round 1000hp” (986bhp) – virtually double the 503bhp introduced by way of these days’s twin-turbocharged petrol V6 vehicle. 

This maximum robust variant will be a four-wheel-drive proposition, reasonably than rear-driven like the present vehicle. It may just get a set-up very similar to fellow Stellantis logo Maserati’s upcoming Granturismo Folgore, which makes use of 3 electrical motors – one at the entrance axle and two on the rear – with torque-vectoring capability. 

In addition to confirming his energy ambitions for the Giulia alternative, Imparato prompt that the EV’s vary will likely be as much as 435 miles at the WLTP cycle, so house owners see it as a “replace” to their present automobiles, now not a downgrade nor pressured transfer.

That determine would fit the electrical successor to sibling logo Peugeot’s 3008 SUV, which can use a variation of the similar STLA platform. 

Imparato used to be prepared to emphasize the significance of a fast electrification programme for Alfa. “We transfer as a result of we should,” he mentioned. “If now not, Alfa Romeo could be lifeless.”

He added: “We will be able to transfer in an actual concrete substitution mode. I don’t need you [customers/owners] to be afflicted by anything else [because of] the transfer; I need you to find it irresistible.”

Design-wise, the Giulia will appear to be “the Alfa Romeo all of us need”, promised the CEO, who described the present design proposals as “very cool”.