Saturday is the season opener for the formula E in Riyadh. The new E-Racer in the traditional car companies are shockingly good – much to the chagrin of Tesla chief Elon Musk.
It is a Premiere: on Saturday, When the formula E in the saudi-launches the Arab Riad, is not a change of vehicle. Up to the formula E season 2017/2018, the drivers were still forced to jump after the first half of the race from your car and a fully charged second car.
This Curiosity is now history: The inserted batteries have improved so much that the cars a whole race. This has quadrupled the range of the vehicles since the first formula E season four years ago.
As a video-game
And also the feeling of driving a very different today: According to the racer Mitch Evans Training in the new Jaguar I-Type 3 feels “like a very intense PlayStation game”.
The Panasonic Jaguar Racing Team: Ho-Pin Tung, Mitch Evans, Nelson Piquet Jr. (v. l.)
However, the formula E philosophy says: You must be a Mitch Evans, to enjoy such a driving experience. The technology developed for formula-E-cars, it should be included also in the development of electric production cars for the street.
From a race car to SUV
So Jaguar has launched this year its first fully electric SUV, the Jaguar I-Pace. With two electric motors and a power of 400 HP of the road car has taken on many Features from the formula-E-model of the past season, the I-Type 2,.
The Jaguar I-Pace is an example of the strong technology transfer between formula E and electric series production
“We have a number of projects within our company, in order to let the knowledge gained from our racing program in the Hardware of our future electric road cars be included,” stressed the Jaguar formula-E-team-in-chief James Barclay recently against the US technology magazine “Wired”.
the BMW factory team celebrates the debut in formula E
the fact is: The formula E is attracting more and more traditional car companies, the promise of the electric racing series in addition to fame and honour especially also potential Spill-Over effects for the emerging mass market for electric vehicles. Jaguar is just one example.
So the BMW factory team celebrates in this season its entry into the formula E – nine years after BMW left the formula 1. In addition to BMW, Audi, Nissan and Jaguar to compete by the end of 2019 Mercedes and Porsche in the case of electric racing.
“a Perfect experimental laboratory for production development”
the BMW iFE.18 from the intensive technology transfer between formula E and series production benefit?
In development to collect the traditional car manufacturer valuable Knowledge that you can use in the design of new E-cars on the road – according to the Motto: What is good for the race track, is also good for the road. So the same engineers that the technology for the current BMW-formula-E-car iFE work.18 develop, also on the BMW i3 and the next iNext-vehicles.
“For BMW, formula E is a perfect experimental laboratory for production development. The transfer of technology between Motorsport and series production is very intense,” stressed BMW Board member Klaus Fröhlich at the presentation of the iFE.18.
for the outgoing Audi chief technology officer, Peter Mertens, the formula E racing car, a pioneer of an electric Offensive. Audi won with its formula-E racing cars of the pre-season in the debut year of the world champion title. At the same time, the Audi e-tron FE04 pave the way for the SUV of the e-tron was to celebrate, with the Audi at the beginning of 2019 and its entry into the electric mobility on the road.
success for Tesla
the strong commitment of the traditional car companies in the formula E is likely to stir up the market for electric mobility neatly by each other. A market that is currently dominated yet clear of Tesla. The manufacturer from the Silicon Valley has garnered with his Model 3 only recently the title of “world’s best-selling electric car”.
After a slow start, the production of Elon Musk with the Tesla Model 3 is able to celebrate its first successes.
With almost 60,000 worldwide new registrations in the first eight months of the middle-class-sedan-replaced the Nissan Leaf up to second place, as from a statistics consulting company Inovev. German models are not among the top ten world’s most sought-after Streamers.
No time to rest
The market dominance of the Model 3 could grow in the coming months even further. Tesla has reached a monthly production capacity of 20,000 units, which corresponds to annual emissions of 240,000 cars. A value that no other model comes close.
However, Tesla boss Elon Musk should not rest on its current Successes better. Because the competition is awake and comes almost directly from the race track.
1/4 The formula-E-cars, the major car companies are
