Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified

In 2014 Formula E cars were 100 mph slower than those in IndyCar and Formula One , and batteries lasted only half a race.

Today the cars are faster, lighter, and more powerful, hitting top speeds of 200 mph and doing 0 to 60 in under 2 seconds .

Jeff Dodds , Formula E's CEO, says the sport's desire to showcase sustainability and make the case for adopting electric cars.

Dodds: "Over the next 10 years the cars will get materially faster, more efficient".

Formula E runs the entire racing season on about 33,000 tons of carbon.

Formula One is between 200,000 and 250,000 ton to run their racing series.

Formula E is the only sport in the world that signed up to science-based targets to audit carbon removal schemes in the countries in which we race.

The aim is to get the current 50 percent rate of EV take- up to 100 percent , Dodds says.

Dodds: "Everything we focus on around battery tech, fast charging, efficiency, it’s all ultimately to speed" Dodds will speak at the WIRED x Octopus Energy Tech Summit at Kraftwerk in Berlin on October 10 .