Avalanche Andretti team leader Roger Griffiths says people need to be educated about electric race cars.The ABB FIA Formula E series, the single-seat motorsport for all-electric cars, is heading to Portland, Ore., June 24, and Jean-Éric Vergne, its first and only repeat champion, said it isn’t the future of auto racing.
Longo said he calculates that “success for us becoming the leader in sustainable motorsport, which at the moment I think we are. We need to keep on growing on the number of cities that we have. We need to keep on growing on the number of teams and manufacturers and that we have already. It’s becoming that tier-one sport that everybody will switch the channel to look for it.”
As for the larger purpose, or ambition, with electric vehicles, Reigle said as late as 2019, “there was a lot of debate” about production EVs and that even last year in Europe, “I think 15 percent of the cars sold are either electric or hybrid. So this is happening very, very fast. We have a huge acceleration. So that's why I think we're still just getting started.”Getty Images
Avalanche Andretti’s Jake Dennis won the Mexico City season-opener and has seven podium finishes, and he’s one point behind Porsche’s standings leader Pascal Wehrlein coming to Portland, said, “The three years which I've been here, it’s grown so much, and the new cars came out this year. So it's progressed a lot, and I think over the next few years, especially when Gen 4 comes out, I think it's going to be another big step.
But that makes him and DS Penske teammate Stoffel Vandoorne, the reigning series champion, pioneers, in a sense.