Alpine A290
Alpine offers some old-fashioned charms in this otherwise high-tech, zero-emissions hatchback This is the Alpine A290, the sporty variant of the Renault 5, and it feels to us like the return of the hot hatchback.Maybe we’ve said that before, about the electric Abarth 500 or even the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, much larger, more expensive and powerful though that is.But sufficiently few are the approachable, hot, practical electric cars that it feels appropriate to mention it. Along with the A290, anyway, these strike me as the three EVs that talk to the enthusiast.There are two power options, 178bhp and 217bhp, but mechanically they’re identical, as compact, fun front-drive hot hatchbacks at less than 1500kg and, as we’ll see, more entertaining that probably anything similar on the market.
Alpine offers some old-fashioned charms in this otherwise high-tech, zero-emissions hatchback
This is the Alpine A290, the sporty variant of the Renault 5, and it feels to us like the return of the hot hatchback.Maybe we’ve said that before, about the electric Abarth 500 or even the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, much larger, more expensive and powerful though that is.But sufficiently few are the approachable, hot, practical electric cars that it feels appropriate to mention it. Along with the A290, anyway, these strike me as the three EVs that talk to the enthusiast.There are two power options, 178bhp and 217bhp, but mechanically they’re identical, as compact, fun front-drive hot hatchbacks at less than 1500kg and, as we’ll see, more entertaining that probably anything similar on the market. 
