To get to those regions, Extreme E will use the aforementioned RMS Saint Helena.
“The important thing is that by going and racing there, we’re going to raise awareness – and then we’re going to help fix it.” “Formula E is based around single-seater racing cars,” he says, “so we wanted to do something based around road cars, and SUVs are an increasingly big market for manufacturers.
EXTREME RACE CHASSIS SERIES
It has been key to giving us energy, and we’ve gained credibility.”Įxtreme E was also shaped in part by Agag’s desire to create a series as far removed from Formula E as possible. “It has been motivation for me: people have questioned whether Extreme E can actually happen, but less than they did when we launched Formula E. “Extreme E is only possible because of what happened with Formula E,” says Agag, who remains chairman of the single-seater series. And even when it did, some didn’t think it would survive. Many doubted it would even get to launch. While it’s now in its sixth season and supported by some of the world’s biggest car manufacturers, the basic concept of an electric single-seater championship met plenty of scepticism and doubt when Formula E was launched back in 2014. That man is Alejandro Agag, the 49-year-old Spanish politician-turned-businessman-turned-motorsport team boss and the founder of Formula E. So why should we be taking Extreme E seriously? Well, for starters, because the man who created it has a proven track record of pulling off the seemingly impossible. It’s a concept that’s like no other motorsport championship previously conceived – and one that seemingly stretches the boundaries of credibility. It’s getting crazy now.Īnything else? Oh, yes: instead of flying to each location, the entire operation will be carried on a specially converted Royal Mail cargo ship that will double as a mobile environmental research laboratory. These efforts to promote sustainability will be overseen by an expert independent panel of scientists, drawn from Cambridge and Oxford universities. The five event locations have been selected because they’ve all been damaged by human activity and climate change, with the goal of the Extreme E organisers being to raise awareness of such issues and support sustainability projects to repair their environments for the future.
Honda E owners offered new smart home charging service.Honda to stop selling combustion engines globally by 2040.