Apollo Hints at an Electric Supercar Future With the G2J Prototype

The Apollo G2J is an electric vehicle supercar prototype which Apollo Group Chairman Eric Ho has suggested is a hint of things to come. It’s a vehicle that Apollo Future Mobility Group (AFMG) has been carefully working on for the last two years, pulling in expertise from both Germany and Japan to create a performance EV.

Apollo has now revealed the prototype, codenamed G2J, just as the vehicle has reached the stage where it will begin to undergo some serious testing. Although the manufacturer hasn’t revealed any detail as far as technical specifications go as yet, as a purely visual automobile, this car looks like it has been designed for one thing and one thing only – going fast and maybe racing.

Apollo says that the idea behind the G2J test car is to redefine what an electric vehicle can be and use its experience in hypercar design to underpin a future of performance electric supercars. Lofty ambitions of course, but it does seem that Apollo is confident in this future, stating that they will be keeping fans and customers from around the world fully informed and up to date on the progress of the electric supercar prototype as it begins testing.

Just how much of what we see here will make it to production is something we will find out further down the road though, as Apollo describes this as a ‘first step’ into developing and creating a new sportscar marque, although the testing is comfortingly being described as advanced. The Apollo G2J prototype will be used to test, develop and refine the powertrain and what Apollo describes as a digital ecosystem, which possibly hints at more than one model based on a shared platform.

Apollo describes itself as a fully global car company, with specialist centres designated across the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and the United States, although going forward, it would appear that the main centre for all future design decisions will be based in Ingolstadt, Germany.

Apollo is prepared to look at all aspects of automobile manufacturing in detail to get the best results; this includes re-evaluating what is currently being used for lightweight carbon-fibre body construction and possibly testing brand new carbon construction composites, as well as looking at the powertrain, body construction and the aforementioned digital ecosystem.

As teasers go, they don’t get much more minimal than this; Apollo has given us a big hint of a future direction, but not much else. Though the images of the Apollo G2J test prototype shows a car that should prove to be an exciting proposition in the hopefully not too distant future.

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