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The all-electric championship has one of the lowest carbon footprints among international sporting events

The world’s first all-electric racing series has teamed up with UN Environment to improve inner-city air quality. The multi-year partnership will focus on raising awareness of the benefits of electric vehicles among younger generations and motorsport fans globally. That will include educating future consumers of electric cars and challenging major cities and governments to take […]

The UK’s largest provider of EV charging stations has signed a two-year contract to keep batteries topped up at Formula E, the all-electric racing championship. Chargemaster will provide charging infrastructure at the world’s first fully-electric single-seater racing series again following a successful partnership in the previous season. The series, which features 12 races spread around the world, has recently caught the attention […]

  Formula E is going to call on all the brains its racers can muster says Team Mahindra’s Karun Chandhok. Chandhok will race alongside teammate Bruno Senna – nephew of the legendary F1 racer – in the international electric car series. He told ELN: “The car feels quite balanced, the energy recovery stuff is really […]

It’s a fair gamble to say Las Vegas has probably never before seen this powerful an electric car. Yesterday the vehicle to be used in Formula E’s racing series made its public debut by rolling into the American gambling capital. Former Formula One driver Lucas di Grassi took the zero emission single-seater for a spin […]

The electric car is headed for its next real test of endurance – as a new model is entering the 24-hour race at Le Mans next year. Green cars are no longer a strange sight at Le Mans as two hybrids won in 2012, with Audi’s E-Tron coming in first and second place. However a hydrogen-electric car […]

The UK will host one of the first ever electric Grand Prix-style races in London when the Formula E Championship kicks off next year. Eight cities so far have been selected to hold races in 2014, including Rome in Italy, China’s capital Beijing and the South American party centres Rio De Janeiro in Brazil and […]

ELN visits the Olympic rowing lake where EDF have helped east end kids get a taste of glory….

Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) has broken the eight minute barrier for electric cars at a track in Germany. Driver Jochen Krumbach set a new lap record of 7mins 47 secs with TMG’s EV P001, smashing the previous lap record which stood at 9mins 1 secs. The TMG team broke the record at the 20.8km Nordschleife […]