Formula E car makes first public demonstration run in Las Vegas
08 January 2014
Following its presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2013, and its debut track run at La Ferté Gaucher, near Paris, France, the Spark-Renault electric SRT_01 E made its first dynamic public appearance in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. (Earlier post.)
The car was in the hands of Brazilian racing driver Lucas di Grassi who drove along the Las Vegas Strip before moving on to Mandalay Bay in the center of the city.
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| Formula E Spark Renault SRT_01E public demonstration run in Las Vegas. Click to enlarge. |
Everybody at Renault is very proud that we were able to show the 100% electric Spark-Renault race car in driving conditions for a very tech-savvy crowd in Las Vegas. The work that has been done by all technical partners over the last few months has been fantastic and the car lives up to Renault’s high competition standards. We are very happy about the result so far and our engineers will keep working with Spark, Dallara, McLaren, Williams and Michelin to further improve the Spark-Renault SRT_01E so that all teams can compete with an amazing 100% electric race car when the championship begins.
—Renault Sport Technologies CEO Patrice Ratti
The car, which has been 10 months in the making, will be used by all 10 teams and 20 drivers competing in the new zero emission series although only for the first season as Formula E is an ‘open championship’ designed to encourage manufacturers to build their own car to help accelerate R&D around the electric vehicle. A total of 42 cars will be produced by Spark with each driver using two cars during the 1-hour races.
Very noisy polluting ICE race cars should be banned and replaced by E-race and/or FC-race units by 2020.
Posted by: HarveyD | 08 January 2014 at 01:57 PM