Formula E Championship: FIA’s announces new race series featuring electric-powered Formula cars

Formula E Championship: FIA’s announces new race series featuring electric-powered Formula cars

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) have reached an agreement with Formula E Holdings LTD (FEH), a consortium of international investors, to license the commercial rights of the FIA Formula E Championship. A website have also been launched, although there are no pictures of how a Formula E car looks like.

This new championship will solely feature electric-powered Formula cars, reflecting the future of the motor industry. Demonstration of the Formula E cars will start in 2013 and the point-scoring races will flag off in 2014. The race series aims to takeoff with 10 teams and 20 drivers competing in the championship. Formula E will stage its races in the heart of renowned cities around the world.

We all know that nearly every racing series double up as test beds for new automotive technologies that will eventually filter into passenger cars. So this race series may well be the spark that jump starts better tech for electric vehicles.

This is not the first race series that fields electric cars. We recently saw electric cars racing up Pikes Peak, which you can read all about here.

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Chris Ng believes that all cars are made equal, and each one has its own unique story to tell. As such, the ex-advertising man is here doing what he truly loves, which is authoring the allegories and anecdotes of automobiles. Having served time in a motoring mag, he believes there's nothing more sublime than keeping the pedal floored and things burbling in top gear.

 

Comments

  • Paulz on Sep 10, 2012 at 11:20 pm

    It seems McLaren are seriously working on power electric formula E car. Touche, hope it’s a grand looking racing car.

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  • VoidDance on Sep 11, 2012 at 8:26 am

    Take this to Putrajaya. It is a perfect place to hold the race with wide avenues and less traffics to be concern with.

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  • Bujang Lapuk on Sep 11, 2012 at 8:32 am

    Sounds like a RC car though :(

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  • ezracopters on Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 am

    i dont think so, part of racing that make it exciting is SOUND. i believe they gonna make ARTIFICIAL sound of petrol engine. they already did it on superbike.. plus driving @ 220km/h without a sound except aircond blower.. hahaha..gotta be Pussy type of racer..

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  • Aris Tee on Sep 11, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    would be kinda cool to see quiet race, with only the screeching of tyre rubber :D

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