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Formula E’s new electric race car is lighter, more powerful, more nimble

Enlarge / This is our first look at Formula E’s Gen3 race car, which debuts next season. (credit: Formula E) On Thursday, ahead of this weekend’s Monaco E-Prix, Formula E finally unveiled its next electric race car. It’s called the Gen3 car because it’s the third generation to be used by the series, and will […]

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Maserati will race in Formula E next year

Enlarge / Formula E’s 2023 season will see the introduction of the new gen3 race car. (credit: Sam Bloxham/LAT/Formula E) The Formula E electric single-seater racing series will see a new manufacturer join its grid next year. The Italian car company Maserati is figuring out its place in an electrified world, with a battery electric […]

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It’s time for “electronic gravel traps” to save F1 from itself

Enlarge / Track-edging red, white, and green painted curbs at the exit of the Variante Della Roggia chicane next to the gravel trap during practice for the 2012 Italian Grand Prix on the Monza Circuit, Italy. On Sunday, under floodlights in Abu Dhabi, the 2021 Formula 1 season came to an end. The most electrifying […]

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Mercedes wins Formula E title, will quit the series at end of 2022

Enlarge / Stoffel Vandoorne of the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team leads the pack at the Berlin E-Prix. (credit: Andreas Gora/picture alliance via Getty Images) On Sunday, Formula E’s seventh series came to a close on the concrete of Templehof in Berlin. It was the sport’s first season as an official FIA world championship, which technically […]

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Three Formula E motors and a DTM engine combine in the Audi RS Q e-tron

Audi Sport is trying something new in 2022 with an attempt at the particular Dakar Rally using this wild-looking creation. [credit: Audi Sport ] Audi’s DTM program—think typically the German equivalent of NASCAR—ended at the end of 2020, and 2021 is the German automaker’s final year in Formula E . But the investment that Audi […]

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NYC ePrix: It’s time for Formula E’s annual visit to America

The ABB New York City ePrix is a chance for Formula E to race in front of one of the most dramatic backdrops in racing: the Manhattan skyline. [credit: Glenn Dunbar / LAT Images ] Formula E, the electric car racing series, is back in Brooklyn this coming weekend. It’s the series’ first time back […]

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Sand, sun, and electric off-road SUVs: Extreme E holds its first race

The Odyssey 21 of Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky and Jenson Button, who are driving for the JBXE Extreme-E Team. Button is not the only F1 world champion to enter a team in Extreme E, but he is the only one to also strap in as a driver. [credit: Extreme E ] Traveling to threatened environments in order […]

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{Audi and BMW to {} Formula E–here Is why that Is OK

|} 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, […]