The Istituto Europeo di Design presents A4810 Project by IED, the new hydrogen-powered concept car created in collaboration with Alpine, a brand of the Renault group. Result of the thesis project of the twenty-eight students of the Master in Transportation Design a.y. 2020/21 IED Turin, A4810 Project by IED is the answer to the new concept of sportiness, which winks at the latest technologies and is able to preserve and guard, at the same time, the tradition of the French brand born in 1955. To celebrate the sportiness of the brand, the French spirit and the link with the Alps, Alpine asked the students to design the new “super berlinette” of 2035, a two-seater supercar with high performance, not only from a sporting point of view, but also from an environmental one.
After the launch of the brief last fall, the students worked on the individual development of style proposals presented to the client, who then chose a combination of two main concept proposals. Starting from the two selected proposals, the young designers worked in unison, in a creative process that traces the dynamics of a style center, to develop the A4810 Project by IED, a light but powerful concept car, agile and pure driving pleasure, as well as a tribute to the models that were the protagonists of the glorious sports competitions from the Sixties onwards. The team of students also digitally created the interiors through sketches, 3D models, renderings, animations and HMI development.
A4810 Project by IED (length 5091 mm – width 2010 mm – height 1055 mm – wheelbase 2717 mm) is a two-seater supercar that combines, in an experimental way, the berlinetta car typology with a hydrogen power train. The engine and tanks preserve a vehicle architecture typical of hypersports cars, but the disruptive novelty is the work of subtraction. The design proposes, in fact, an alternation between empty and full spaces, which visually lighten the vehicle and presents aerodynamic solutions inspired by Formula 1. “Also this year, through the most important project of their course of study, the Master’s students have made their own, in a fertile and visionary context, the concepts of skills transversality and team working,” said Paola Zini, Director of IED Turin. “The collaboration with Istituto Europeo di Design and its students has been a great experience,” said Antony Villain, Alpine Design Director.
