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  When Audi demonstrated its FE07 race car a week, it did not tell us it’d be the corporation’s last Formula E automobile. [credit: Audi ]

Formula E likely expected that its preseason evaluation could be the source of several headlines today. Ahead of this electrical racing series’ seventh year launch in Chile in January, 12 teams assembled in a race track at Valencia, Spain, to conduct their new automobiles in earnest for the first-time . On the contrary, it was that the surprising statement both Audi and BMW will create year seven their final that captured all their attention.

Predictably, the game’s detractors have already been quick to catch this as proof that power and racing cars simply don’t go together. This is why I believe that they’re mistaken.

Racing to create better street automobiles

When Audi introduced its FE07 previous week, the group held a digital technician speak displaying its newest Formula E powertrain. Called the MGU05, it is a compact bundle of carbon fiber and metal which produces the series-mandated 250kW (335hp) using 97 percent efficacy and a general mass of only 77lbs (35kg). For the very first time because Audi entered the game formally in year four, it produced that the powertrain entirely in house, an adventure which Stefan Aicher, thoughts of growth e-Drive in Audi Sport, stated was”among the very intensive and difficult jobs”