- That is the next-generation Alfa Romeo Stelvio testing below camouflage in Sweden.
- It does not seem to have exhaust pipes, and its grille is totally closed off, so it is seemingly a full EV.
- Alfa Romeo is abandoning the $2 billion Giorgio platform and utilizing STLA Giant for the Stelvio and Giulia.
As the electrical car market takes off globally in an uneven approach, many automotive firms try a brand new technique with their next-generation automotive lineups: you’ll be able to go hybrid or totally electrical, whichever fits your wants greatest. It appears to be like like Italy’s Alfa Romeo will likely be taking an analogous tack with its new SUV and sedan.
Alfa Romeo is phasing out the Giulia and Stelvio, two fashions that had been exactly what followers wished from the model. Each will likely be changed by all-new fashions constructed round guardian firm Stellantis’ STLA Giant platform and provide each combustion and pure electrical energy.
We had no official affirmation of the EV choice beforehand, however Alfa Romeo appears to have confirmed it in its teaser pictures for the next-generation Stelvio.
A number of pictures displaying a camouflaged Stelvio prototype testing within the snow had been launched, and we’re fairly certain the car is totally electrical. The large giveaways are the shortage of any seen tailpipes within the again and the orange high-voltage sticker within the higher nook of its windshield. The wheels additionally seem to have an aerodynamic design, but it surely’s barely obscured by camouflage and the rotation of the wheels.
Photograph by: Alfa Romeo
The entrance of the prototype can also be virtually utterly closed off with solely a small opening within the decrease a part of the bumper letting air by means of. The door handles additionally seem like of the flush form, displaying that Alfa Romeo is paying nice care to aerodynamics for this mannequin. This doesn’t essentially assist affirm the prototype is electrical, however there undoubtedly appears to be an aero theme with this specific car.
its entrance fascia, it sadly seems to have a cut up headlight design, with LED daytime operating lights above the precise headlights, that are small and positioned decrease down. That is one design development that appears to be sweeping the business these days, but it surely’s resulted in additional controversial designs slightly than ones which can be unanimously favored.
If there’s one automaker that may pull this off, it’s Alfa Romeo, and hopefully, the Stelvio will look higher than the Junior, which supplies us some hints as to what the bigger SUV will appear to be. Alfa Romeo provides us an excellent have a look at the aspect profile of the car, which seems greater than earlier than, but it surely nonetheless has the identical virtually fastback-like roofline that falls towards the again, just like the present Stelvio.
In two of the teaser pictures, Alfa Romeo exhibits the prototype going sideways, hinting that it’s going to retain the present mannequin’s rear-wheel-drive nature for the subsequent era. The final shot within the gallery actually exhibits how sideways it could get, which it must be in a world of Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ns and the inevitable quad-motor M-badged BMW X3-equivalent electrical SUV.
Photograph by: Alfa Romeo
Photograph by: Alfa Romeo
Driving on the STLA Giant platform means the brand new Stelvio (and Giulia) will likely be associated to the Jeep Wagoneer S and the Dodge Charger Daytona EV. The latter isn’t a automotive that has been very warmly obtained; a muscle automotive that may’t do burnouts is sort of a head-scratcher.
However the platform will be tuned and tailor-made to really feel very totally different from Alfa Romeo fashions, and it permits for each 400- and 800-volt architectures. Stellantis additionally says it could take a battery pack as much as 118 kilowatt-hours and speed up from naught to 62 mph (100 kph) in “the 2-second vary,” and it helps all forms of powertrains, together with plug-in hybrids.
Since Alfa Romeo has already began teasing the Stelvio, its full unveiling shouldn’t be too far sooner or later. It’s set to be unveiled someday this 12 months earlier than it goes on sale in 2026, together with the Giulia, which apparently received’t be a conventional sedan however one thing taller like a bigger Italian Polestar 2.
