Formula E Championship

The future of road cars is generally assumed to be the electric car, but what about the future of racing? While Formula 1 cars have used hybrid drive systems for several seasons now, all-electric racing hasn’t really caught on, whether at the drag strip or the road course. Formula E hopes to...

Now that all ten teams for the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship have been confirmed, we can also reveal the locations for all the races. The Formula E season will stretch over two years, starting in September of 2014 and concluding in June the following year. There will be ten races...

The tenth and final team for the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship has been confirmed as Venturi Grand Prix, backed by French electric car company Venturi and celebrity environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio. Based in Monaco, the team will be led by DiCaprio and Venturi founder Gildo...

After a brief and somewhat unsuccessful stint in Formula One that ended in 2011, Virgin has decided it’s time to go racing once again. This time, however, Virgin is focusing on the new Formula E Championship. Virgin’s Formula E team, to be called Virgin Racing, is awaiting final FIA...

The eighth team confirmed for the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship is Mahindra Racing, the motorsport outfit of Indian automaker Mahindra. That means just two more teams can sign up for the electric car racing series before the start of the season in September 2014. Mahindra already...

Yet another former Formula One name has been linked with the Formula E Championship, the world’s first sanctioned motorsport event for electric cars. That name is Super Aguri, which returns to the world of international motorsport as a Formula E team set to compete in the sport’s...

Four-time Formula One world champion Alain Prost has joined forces with Jean-Paul Driot, founder of leading GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 team Dams (Driot Associés Motor Sport), to form a new team that will compete in the inaugural season of Formula E next year. The new team, to be called...

The world’s first sanctioned electric car race is now just one year away and at the Frankfurt Auto Show this week we got our first look at the car that will be competing in it. We are, of course, talking about the Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season gets underway in September 2014...

The new, all-electric race car that will compete in the first season of the Formula E Championship has been revealed today at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. The car’s official title is the Spark-Renault SRT_01E and it will be a common chassis used by all teams in this inaugural season of...

Fox Sports has signed a multi-year deal with organizers of the Formula E Championship for broadcast rights of the new electric car racing series. The deal includes broadcast exclusivity across the Fox family of networks in the U.S., including the new Fox Sports 1 channel which launches on August...

Renowned IndyCar team Andretti Autosport, led by Michael Andretti, son of the legendary Mario Andretti, has announced its intention to compete in the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship commencing in 2014. Only three days ago we reported that the locations for the 10 planned races in...

The German capital Berlin has emerged as the tenth and final race location for the inaugural season of Formula E, the world’s first sanctioned racing format for electric cars. The first Formula E race will take place in September, 2014, with the season running through the winter and ending in...

British engineering outfit Bluebird, a name synonymous with setting land speed records, has announced plans to transfer its go-fast technology to the world of production cars. The last we heard, Bluebird was working on an electric car capable of reaching a top speed of 500 mph or more and in the...

Williams is the latest Formula One team to get involved with the new Formula E Championship, whose inaugural season commences next year. McLaren has already announced it will supply the electric motors for the Formula E race cars while Renault is helping to optimize their performance and electronic...

Renault, engine supplier to the likes of Red Bull Racing and a former F1 champion itself, has signed up with the innovative Formula E Championship as an official technical partner. The French automaker joins the likes of McLaren, Drayson Racing and Spark Racing Technology as Formula E partners...

A new motorsport series sanctioned by the FIA and made up exclusively of electric race cars is coming in 2014. That series is the Formula E Championship, which so far has added Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Rome, Italy as two locations where its zero-emission, electric race cars will be competing...

McLaren is one of the dominant forces in racing, with its Formula One team second only to Ferrari in motorsport’s highest echelon when it comes to the total number of wins. What many readers may not know, however, is that McLaren is much more than just a race team. In fact, McLaren has...

If you still think that electric automobile racing is the stuff of science fiction, think again: the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has granted the commercial rights to the Formula E series to Formula E Holdings. That means the proposed 2014 debut of the series is...

Motorsports’ main sanctioning body, the FIA (Federation Internationale De L'Automobile), is serious about launching a new Formula E category for zero-emission electric race cars and has even issued a call for “Expressions of Interest” in just such a series being developed. In...

We all like to think that our cars have been developed using technology bred on the race track. It adds a sense of kudos and the impression of thoroughbred engineering to even the most mundane of vehicles. Ironic then, that with the push towards electric vehicles as road transport, the world of...