DeLorean unveils the Alpha5 EV prototype at Pebble beach

After an initial tease in February and a rendered reveal of the whole car in May, DeLorean Motor Company officially revealed the real-life prototype of its upcoming Alpha5 EV at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance car show in Monterey, California.

The four-seat, gullwing-door Alpha5 coupe in the new DeLorean Motor Company’s (DMC) attempt to revive the brand after the initial car, the stainless steel DMC-12, went out of production after the 1983 model year when the original firm went bankrupt.

The Alpha5 was created in collaboration with Italdesign. The car has fully functional and quite large gullwing doors. It’s an all-electric automobile, with DMC claiming it can reach 60 mph (miles per hour) in 2.99 seconds and hit 155 mph flat-out. The Alpha5 is an all-wheel drive four-seater with a stated range of 300 miles using a 100-kWh battery.

The details on the price and the number or arrangement of motors aren’t available. Still, DeLorean’s original announcement said only 88 would be built, so it is improbable the EV will be cheap.

The DeLorean is famous in pop culture thanks to its starring role in the timeless Back to the Future movie trilogy, where it played the part of the time machine that sent a teenage Marty McFly from 1985 back to 1955, then later to 2015 and to 1885 in the last part of the trilogy.