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Why Formula E is Very Important for the Future of All-Electric Cars

Formula E is a brand new racing that founded in 2012. In the racing, only all-electric cars can drive. For now, there are nine teams in the race, also Jaguar announced that the company will race in Formula E.

Helena Marsh
Helena MarshEditor-in-Chief
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Why Formula E is Very Important for the Future of All-Electric Cars

Formula E is a brand new racing that founded in 2012. In the racing, only all-electric cars can drive. For now, there are nine teams in the race, also Jaguar announced that the company will race in Formula E. Is that highly possible all-electric cars will steal some hearts of the Formula One fans. Unfortunately, after Michael, the F1’s popularity went down. One downside of an All-electric car is, they don’t have a cool engine sound like the Formula One cars. Sadly…

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But why this race is so important? We just get in an era of all electric cars. And before and still many of our cars are using engines that work with pistons, gear shift and other components, and Formula One races helped the manufacturers to improve the vehicles. Many important technologies we have in today’s cars came from the money and time spent on Improving F1 cars. Some of these techs are; Tyre technologies, steel disc brakes, active suspensions, sequential gearboxes, aerodynamics, Kinetic Energy Recovery System ( KERS ), safety and engines techs of course. As you see, even today’s all-electric cars use some of the technologies that came from F1.

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Why are these races the key point to find out new technologies for vehicles?
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First of all, the car manufacturers enter to these races for prestige purposes. Races watched all around the world and it is a great publicity for them, second if you want to research some new technologies you need an engineering team, equipment, Highly trained drivers needed because some of the techs should force throughout its limits. And this combination cost a lot of money. But with the race like Formula 1, the manufacturer can have sponsors to cover their expenses, the publicity helps them sell cars. If you look at all picture, they are getting huge publicity with a little amount of money and they do researchers and improve their vehicles at the some time.
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Think about Ferrari, I don’t think no one can deny the quality of the car they produce. In YouTube, all the drag racing I watched, there were some cars that Tesla’s P85D’s insane mode can’t beat, and one of them was Ferrari. It owns this to the technology that took years to improve during all these F1 races.
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Helena Marsh

Helena Marsh

Editor-in-Chief

Helena Marsh is the Editor-in-Chief at TrendinTech, where she leads editorial strategy and oversees coverage across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise technology. With more than a decade in technology journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, she previously served as a senior editor at Wired UK and covered the technology sector for The Guardian, following the rise of the big platforms, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the regulatory push from Brussels and Washington. Helena holds an MA in Journalism from City, University of London and is a regular speaker at Web Summit in Lisbon and CES in Las Vegas. She believes technology reporting should be rigorous and plainly written, so readers understand what actually changes for them rather than what a company's announcement promises.

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