Doors open on new Donington Park headquarters and team facilities LEICESTERSHIRE, UK (May 15 2014): The 10 teams competing in the new FIA Formula E Championship received their first batch of Spark-Renault SRT_01E race cars today, at the same time as the doors to their new state-of-the-art facilities were officially…
Formula E released this press information today: MONTEBLANCO, SPAIN (April 30 2014): Ho-Pin Tung – the first Chinese driver to ever test a Formula 1 car – reckons that the all-new FIA Formula E Championship will feature ‘super-close’ racing, after testing the fully-electric Spark-Renault STR_01E race car for the first…
Lucas di Grassi has left his test driver post with the FIA Formula E organization, so that he can be a driver with one of the teams. The issue is that FIA rules don’t allow a series test driver to also be a participant in the series, and therefore to…
There was a little bit of difference between the original calendar announced by Formula E, and the most recent calendar. Namely: Hong Kong was not to have a Formula E date, and was replaced by a date in Rio de Janeiro. When the calendar was announced, I went “ho hum”…
This thought has been in the back of my mind for awhile – the Formula E electric car racing series will set up an FIA sanctioned race track in each of the host cities for a full weekend. The focus of the event is an electric car race, and presumably…
Those of us who are fans of electric motorcycle racing are probably jealous of all the attention the Formula E electric car racing series is getting. In any case, the latest bit of news is that Boston Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck and a dozen of his co-owners in the NBA…
The FIA Formula E World Cup electric car racing series has been up to a lot of actions, which I’ve not kept up with. The most recent is that the FIA has approved their 2014 proposed schedule, and before that they approved several teams and a media partner. An asterisk…
The Formula E boss, Alejandro Agag, spoke at a technology fair in Barcelona recently, claiming that the Formula E will speak to the Facebook/iPad generation, and that the series will inspire a generation of battery heads. What he’s referring to is a demographic shift created by the flourishing of mobile…
Two Formula One drivers in a phys.org interview have split opinions on whether the Formula E electric race car series would be a success. One, Sebastian Vettel, said it was going to fail, that it’s not the future, because it doesn’t scream, and you don’t feel the vibration in your…
Shane Turpin, Empulse RR, Laguna Seca, 2013 eRoadRacing The gauntlet is thrown – let’s see if Formula E will pick it up. Brammo, the electric motorcycle company whose electric race bike, the Empulse RR, is among the top tier of electric superbikes, posted this on Facebook this morning: Spark-Renault SRT_01E…
The FIA Formula E World Championship series has unveiled the long-awaited SRT_01E electric race car, but did not (in their press release) answer some of the questions I’ve had about the series. Specifically they did not answer anything about how the race will be conducted. The SRT_01E has been designed…
Qualcomm and Formula E have announced a multi-year agreement in which Qualcomm will become an Official Founding Technology Partner of the FIA Formula E Championship. The agreement will let Qualcomm showcase their Halo Wireless charging system, which will plausibly result in that wireless charging system gaining traction in the marketplace…
The Formula E electric car racing series may be doomed before it launches. Or maybe not. Over on proev.com they’re claiming that Formula E is doomed because the organizers are not organizing a racing series, but are making poor choices based on marketing goals, and have created technical flaws. I’m…
Gil de Ferran is a 20+ year veteran of motorsports having won several championships including the IndyCar (twice) and Indianapolis 500. The Formula E electric car racing series announced today they’d signed him up for two roles. The first role is “Ambassador” and “spokesman” for the series, primarily in North…
Formula E has signed up FOX Sports to handle broadcasting the Formula E races. They’ll have exclusive broadcast rights in the U.S. and a mix of exclusive and non-exclusive rights elsewhere. FOX Sports has broadcast entities in over 80 countries on six continents. Ohmy.. that’s a big media organization. In…
