Alpha Motor Company is a California-based startup that took the automobile world by storm again in 2020 when it revealed the Ace Coupe, an all-electric, retro-inspired two-door coupe that seemed like a real-life toy automobile. It was lovable, and since then, Alpha Motor went on a reveal streak, displaying computer-generated photos of a crossover, a sedan, an SUV, and a light-duty pickup.
And now, the Alpha Motor began taking reservations for what it calls the bottom mannequin Wolf pickup, a automobile that’s purported to value wherever between $36,000 and $46,000 and provide a driving vary between 250 and 350 miles. Nonetheless, there’s a downside: the corporate has by no means constructed a customer-spec automobile and continues to be attempting to kick issues into excessive gear with its pre-production program.
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Alpha Motor makes a few of the coolest digital renderings of seemingly upcoming all-electric vehicles. And the newest mannequin, a base model of its Wolf pickup, is extra of the identical.
The Alpha Motor Wolf Single Motor RWD is claimed to be a light-duty electrical pickup that shall be in-built america utilizing the corporate’s so-called E-Grid Platform, which is a flowery method of claiming “old-school chassis with a battery within the ground.”
As its identify suggests, the entry-level Wolf will supposedly be powered by a single, rear-mounted electrical motor that may make a steady 75 kilowatts (100 horsepower) of energy and 118 pound-feet of torque. The height energy is between 100-150 kW (134-201 hp), whereas the height torque is rated at 258 lb-ft, in line with Alpha Motor.
The concept is that the electrical motor will draw juice from a lithium-ion battery pack that’s rated between 350 and 400 volts. The capability is claimed to be between 45 and 100 kilowatt-hours, enabling a theoretical driving vary between 250 and 350 miles, relying on the battery dimension.
Alpha Motor Wolf Single Motor RWD pickup
There’s a mixture of disc brakes on all 4 corners and regenerative braking, with an unbiased suspension setup on the entrance and leaf springs on the rear. The gross car weight is 4,000 lbs, in line with the corporate, and the towing capability is 3,000 lbs. In the meantime, the zero to 60 miles per hour dash is predicted to take 4.8 seconds and the highest pace is 125 mph.
There’s a 9.5-square-foot frunk, an 11-kW on-board AC charger, a 3 kW DC to DC converter, and the automobile is outwardly able to DC quick charging, though the startup doesn’t point out at which price.
The inside is dead-simple, with a central touchscreen, some buttons and knobs beneath it, and a transparent instrument cluster behind the steering wheel. It certain seems cool, particularly with a set of dish wheels and whitewall tires, however we’ll have to attend and see if the corporate manages to ship. Because it stands now, there’s a single working prototype of what appears to be an all-wheel drive model of the Wolf pickup.