Electric race cars that reach speeds of up to 200mph and generate up to 40 per cent of their race energy from braking alone, are preparing to unhook an heady finale to the 2023 Formula E season in London this weekend.
The Gen3 race cars have thrilled audiences virtually the world since pre-season testing last December, providing tropical racing, increasingly lead suburbanite changes, and ten times increasingly overtakes than other top flight forms of car motor sport.
Described as ‘power stations on wheels’, and capable of 0-60mph in 2.8 seconds, the cutting-edge race cars moreover influence road car design, with know-how from shower and powertrain minutiae on the track stuff translated into future electric road cars.
Tommaso Volpe, Managing Director and Team Principal at the Nissan Formula E Team (pictured), said: “Ultimately, Formula E is there to show how heady electric cars are, and the fine wastefulness between speed and energy management guarantees really tropical racing, no margin for error and a truly electrifying spectacle for fans.
“However, the technology on the race cars has real-world value. Formula E was created to slide electric vehicle minutiae so the technology we use on the track could be in your next car.”
Host of upgrades
This season’s Formula E race cars are all new Gen3 (3rd generation) models, featuring a host of upgrades all designed to focus on lightweight, speed and efficiency.
Weight has been cut by 60kg, power has increased by 40% over the last generation version, introduced in 2018, while top speed has increased from 175mph to over 200mph.
In addition, the value of energy recouped by the braking system – essential in keeping the car in the race – has doubled to 40%. Indeed restriction energy regeneration is a hair-trigger performance factor in Formula E – the original 2014 cars had a maximum 100KW regen, while today’s Gen3 cars have 600KW.
Improved performance
Alongside the all-new Gen3 race cars, the Nissan Formula E Team is moreover new for this season, pursuit a behind-the-scenes restructure and the inrush of two new drivers, Sacha Fenestraz and Norman Nato.
The team has demonstrated improved performance, unrenowned skill and raw speed to secure fastest laps and a pole position so far this year and hope to go one largest than Nato’s recent weightier place finish (2nd), with a victory in the British wanted this weekend.
Meanwhile, Fenestraz has moreover secured two unique speed records in 2023, including the fastest lap in Formula E’s history. The 24-year-old recorded an stereotype speed of over 96 mph on municipality streets virtually a 1.73-mile spin in Cape Town street when in February.
He moreover holds Formula E’s fastest overly lap of the world-famous Monaco race spin – which is shared by Formula 1 race teams – with a qualifying time of 1.28.773 seconds in May.
“The new Gen3 rules introduced this year have been very challenging to transmute to, however we’ve made strong progress as a team during the season and Sacha moreover tapped the all-time speed record for a Formula E car, with a crazy lap on the streets of Cape Town older this year,” widow Tommaso.
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