Formula E Championship

Motorsport organizing body the FIA on Tuesday announced the names of nine constructors who have been granted homologation for Seasons Five, Six and Seven of the Formula E Championship. We’re currently in Season Three, which spans 2016-17. Among them is BMW, although the automaker is yet to...

The scream of a Formula One V-6 is about as quintessential as Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] noises go these days, but that may all change in the future if the Italian sports car builder moves into the growing Formula E field. Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters from Motorsport that the FIA's Formula...

A critical component of a successful racing team is its ability to accumulate and understand many points of data. Motorsports engineers thrive on racing data, as it helps them figure out how to make the car and driver a faster symbiotic unit. In the still fairly virgin world of the Formula E...

Formula E is... not the most thrilling racing out there at the moment. The quality of the teams and the drivers are high, yet there's something to be said about the lack of noise when you're watching these all-electric race cars lap a given circuit. Additionally, the idea that you have to swap into...

Saturday’s opening race of the 2016/2017 Formula E Championship held in Hong Kong wasn’t the miracle start we’re sure Jaguar would have hoped for. The automaker, which is partnered with Panasonic, ended up with just one driver, Adam Carroll, finishing 12th out of the 15 finishers...

It may have missed out on a Formula One race but New York City will get to host back-to-back rounds of the Formula E Championship. Organizers of the electric car racing series confirmed on Wednesday that the final two rounds of the 2016/2017 season will take place in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The rounds...

Jaguar is committed to electrifying its lineup but it’s first electric car isn’t a production model. Rather, it’s a race car for the third season (2016/2017) of the Formula E Championship which gets underway in Hong Kong on October 9. The new race car is called the Jaguar I-Type...

The Formula E electric car racing series is starting to gain traction among the major automakers. Audi on Friday confirmed it will have a factory team ready to race in season four of Formula E starting in late 2017, joining other automakers DS, Faraday Future, Jaguar, Mahindra, NextEV, Renault and...

While autonomous driving technology may still be in its infancy, there are efforts underway to get a fully autonomous racing series up and running. The series has even been given a name: Roborace. We first learned of Roborace back in March. The cars would be identical, right down the various...

BMW may be the next major automaker to join the Formula E Championship. The electric car racing series already sees the likes of Audi, DS, Mahindra and Renault either fielding a team or supporting one, and will also see Jaguar enter with its own team when season three kicks off in October. BMW...

The first designs commissioned by Italian legend Pininfarina by the company's new owner has been shown: A trio of Formula E electric race car concepts. Indian conglomerate Mahindra bought Pininfarina late last year, fueling months of speculation about what would happen to the decades-old Italian...

Professional stuntman Damien Walters successfully completed one of his most terrifying stunts yet. The stunt was organized by the people running the Formula E Championship, and saw Walters execute a blind backflip over one of the championship’s electric race cars traveling at precisely 60...

The first race between fully autonomous cars is coming—and much soon than you think. A championship called Roborace is being established and if all goes to plan will host its first race later this year. Roborace will be an exhibition-style event supporting the Formula E Championship and...

Jaguar is the latest automaker to announce a commitment to the Formula E electric car racing series, joining the likes of Audi, DS, Mahindra, Renault and Venturi. The British automaker’s first race will coincide with the start of Formula E's third season in the fall of 2016. It will mark...

French auto giant PSA Peugeot Citroën is in the midst of forming a new premium brand called DS. At present the brand is focused on the Chinese market, where most of its models are sold, but slowly it will offer its growing lineup of cars in other markets, perhaps even in the United States at...

The first round of the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship got underway in Beijing, China over the weekend, and like any good sport there was plenty of action to behold. Victory in the first-ever sanctioned electric car race went to Audi Sport ABT’s Lucas di Grassi, but only...

Tomorrow, motorsport enters a new era with the first ever sanctioned electric car race set to take place. We’re talking about the new Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season gets underway tomorrow in Beijing and will feature 10 events hosted all around the globe. The final race will...

If you're going to launch a low-emissions motor sport like Formula E, you'll want to extend its ethos into off-track aspects of the series too. There's little use preaching about clean electric racers if the safety car is a V-8-engined gas-guzzler, which is why the electric single-seater series has...

The inaugural season for the Formula E Championship commences next month, and coinciding with the impending start of the new electric car racing series is the availability of the sport’s Spark-Renault SRT_01E race car in Forza Motorsport 5. Available as a free download in the Xbox Live...

So you’ve been keeping up with the progress of the FIA’s new Formula E series? You are keen to see electric cars racing in eerie near-silence? Want to get a glimpse of the future of motorsports? So have we. But have you seen what the pit stops are going to look like? MUST SEE: This...