These illustrations are made by Francois Hubert/SB-Medien for CarScoops. They are speculative drawings based on prototype models we’ve spied as well as intel we’ve obtained and are not related to or endorsed by Alpine / Renault.

Renault wants to transform its Alpine performance brand from a niche player with one critically acclaimed, but slow-selling sports car, to a major international force in the performance market with three wildly different cars in its lineup, all powered exclusively by electricity.

The first of those cars to reach showrooms is likely to be a hot version of the retro Renault 5 EV now that Alpine has replaced Renaultsport as the group’s performance brand. But these new renderings give us our first indications of how the two other, and arguably more important, cars in that triple-attack program might look.

Related: Alpine Previews Fully-Electric Grand Tourer, Hot Hatch And A110 Coupe Successor

Announcing its plans on Wednesday, Alpine released three teaser images showing the cars’ silhouettes. But our artist’s illustrations show how the all-important Alpine face might be integrated into those silhouettes, building on the style established by the A110 introduced in 2017.

Alpine 210

Illustration credits and copyright Jean Francois Hubert/SB-Medien for CarScoops

First up, we’ve got the a new coupe we’re calling the 210, the one car in the trio most closely identifiable with Alpine’s current offerings. In principle it replaces the current A110 sports car, and retains much of that car’s visual character, including some of the styling nods to the original rally-winning Alpine A110 of the 1960s and ’70s. Expect it to hit showrooms in the second half of the decade, be low, compact and have two seats. Need more chairs? That’s where our second Alpine comes in, but we’ll get to that in a minute.

As with the current A110, the focus will be on lightness and agility above outright straight-line performance. Which is just one reason why Alpine has teamed up with Lotus to create a brand new sports car platform that will also generate a new Lotus two-seater.

It’s not clear yet how the work involved in creating that platform will be divided between the two firms, though it seems reasonable to assume that Lotus will develop the architecture, albeit with substantial input from Alpine.

The battery technology, however, is likely to benefit from Renault’s newly announced tie-up with French start-up Verkor. Renault is taking a 20 per cent stake in Verkor and the two firms plan to set up a R&D center for battery production starting next year.

Group Renault boss Luca de Meo acknowledged that the presence of an EV powertrain would inevitably make the A210 more expensive than the A110 when it arrives some point after 2024, but told Autocar that it would “stay on the level of pricing” of the current car, suggesting it won’t suddenly jump into Porsche 911 territory. On that basis, and remembering that the top spec A110 Legende GT (pictured above) already carries a £59,140 ($83,300) sticker, a starting price somewhere around there seems likely.

Also bound to rise, due to the EV componentry, specifically, the batteries, is the curb weight. Expect the new car to carry over some form of the bonded and riveted aluminum construction common to both the A110 and the Lotus Elise, Exige and Evora to keep weight down. But with those two companies involved, we wouldn’t bet against it being sensational to drive whatever the scales say.

Alpine A410 Grand Tourer

More radical even than the A110’s switch to electric power is the next car in Alpine’s plan. But it’s also an entirely logical step: create a low-slung electric four-door GT that can go toe-to-toe with cars (depending on the price range), from the BMW i4 up to the Porsche Taycan, Tesla Model S and Audi e-tron GT. It’s hard to tell from Alpine’s own teaser, but the French brand could very well add a crossover-ish variant, similar to what Porsche did with the Cross Turismo boasting SUV styling elements such as protective body kit, if only for appearances.

The A110 might have won both praise and comparison tests, but the global sports coupe market is small, and getting smaller as drivers turn towards more crossover-based performance cars. You only have to look at the success of Porsche over the last 20 years, and of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Aston Martin more recently, to know creating an Alpine crossover edition makes sense.

But as Alpine’s silhouette teaser reveals, the A410 GT as we’re calling this one due to its four-seat layout, isn’t anything like your usual chunky crossovers. Instead it will be one of the first of new style of cars that further blurs the boundaries between crossovers and sedans.

Overlaying Porsche’s Taycan EV on the Alpine’s silhouette you can see that the rooflines are almost identical in the way they rise and fall. But the Alpine sits noticeably higher. Obviously there’s an element of guesswork involved here in lining up the cars, and we can’t be sure they even have the same wheelbase, but it tells us enough.

Creating a clear link to Alpine’s sports car will be a key priority for the design team, so expect to see some variation on the 1960s-style hood- and door coving, and the return of the distinctive secondary light units inboard of the main lamps. And the Alpine name will almost certainly be picked out in letters above the front reg plate.

As for what’s under that skin, Alpine isn’t saying. Its sports car partner, Lotus, is also working on a crossover based on a new Evolution platform developed with owner Geely’s money. But given Group Renault already has access to suitable architecture within the Renault Nissan alliance, it seems far more likely that the A410 will be built around Renault’s CMF-EV platform that is designed for medium and large cars, including the new Nissan Ariya and Renault Megane E-Tech Electric.

That platform is capable of being configured with either one or two motors, though while the weight advantages of offering a single motor version might sit well with the Alpine brand ethos, the resulting unexceptional performance might mean all versions come with two motors and all-wheel drive, at least initially.

For reference the single-motor (and front-wheel drive, note) Nissan Ariya makes 215 hp and takes 7.5 seconds to reach 62mph, while the fastest version, the 389 hp bi-motor, all-wheel drive AWD Performance version, gets there in 5.1 seconds.

But dressed up in a suitably Alpine style, fortified with some extra muscle and tuned by the teams responsible for cars like the A110 and Renaultsport Meganes, it’s entirely possible that Alpine could create a sporty family car that’s a genuine rival for a Porsche. As for how much this new family-friendly Alpine will cost, that depends on which Porsche Alpine is targeting. If it’s vehicles like the BMW i4, reckon on a $50k (£42k) jumping off point, but if it’s targeting buyers looking at the Taycan sedan, it’ll start at nearer $80k.

What do you think of Alpine’s plans to go electric, and does it have a hope in hell of stealing Porsche sales? Let us know in the comments.

All illustration credits and copyright Jean Francois Hubert/SB-Medien for CarScoops