Just a few days ago Formula E had announced that Spark Racing Technologies (SPARK), their technology subsidiary, had been approved for homologation by the FIA to provide cars for Formula E’s 2014 season. Now they’ve announced selection of Berlin as the 10th city in the 2014 season. This completes the…
Spark Racing Technology today announced they’d created a consortium of companies that together will produce the electric race cars for the Formula E racing series. A decision by the FIA World Council on June 28, 2013 formally approved SPARK’s application for homologation as the supplier of all the electrical single-seaters to…
The Formula E technology subsidiary, Spark Racing Technology, announced the other day another partnership with a technology provider. The new deal is with Williams Advanced Engineering, who will design and assemble the battery packs for the SRT 01E. This is the electric race car that will be used in the…
On Saturday, Formula E welcomed the selection of Beijing as a host city for the inaugural 2014 season of the electric car race series. Formula E is an electric race car series using Formula 1 style race cars, with electric drive trains, racing on city streets. The race route for…
Is Formula E’s plan to have two cars per driver a super-extravagence? This is a question raised in comments on a posting on another site (see link below) reporting on the Formula E 2014 season calendar. Because the Formula E cars have battery packs that support only 15-20 minutes of…
In addition to announcing its new partnership with Renault, the Formula E has announced Bangkok Thailand as the 9th city for the Formula E 2014 season. Their 2014 season of electric car racing is envisioned to include 10 cities around the world, and two months ago had announced a list…
In April, Renault teased us with an image talking about the marriage of electric of electric vehicles and Formula 1 motorsports. It seemed impossible that it meant Renault would team up with the Formula E series, especially as they seemed to already have partnerships lined up with Dallara and McLaren. …
A nice video from the Financial Times about the Formula E. Who’d’a’thunk that the Financial Times would have someone covering Formula 1 racing?
Today is Earth Day, and the Formula E guys went to Los Angeles to show off their electric race car and give Angelenos a preview of the racing championship. Los Angeles is one of the 8 cities that have committed to hosting Formula E during 2014. The FIA Formula E…
Renault has announced they will announce something about “When the worlds of Formula 1 and electric cars meet…”. That obtuse announcement of a pending announcement was accompanied by a nearly useless picture showing something vaguely electric performance car related. I hesitated posting anything, preferring to wait until the April 25…
How did Formula E come into being, what are the business relationships between Formula E and the teams, or Formula E and host cities, and just how did Formulec get to be the provider of cars to Formula E? Those questions and others are covered in an article in Square…
According to an article on pitpass.com, the Formula E series is planning to add two new cities to the 2014 season, and they’re working hard to make one of those cities Monaco. When we last covered Formula E a month ago, they’d announced 8 of the 10 cities in the…
The Formula E electric race car series set its 2014 itinerary on an around-the-world tour of electric racing action. The preliminary calendar presented to the FIA include two races in Europe, two in North America, two in South America and two in Asia. The Formula E series says they received…
Formula E has signed a second team, China Racing, for the 2014 racing season. The Chinese team is the second entry officially proposed to the FIA in the new global electric racing championship. The announcement was made on Feb. 27 at the FIA headquarters in Paris. The Chinese team will…
Formula E has released the first sketch of the new Formula E race car. The design work is being done by Dallara. I didn’t get any information along with the sketch. Until now the only images we’ve had for Formula E was the old Formulec electric race car. Given that…
