{"id":8887,"date":"2017-07-26T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleanfleetreport.com\/?p=8887"},"modified":"2020-02-21T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:13:54","slug":"green-motorsports-mercedes-benz-shifts-formula-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/green-motorsports-mercedes-benz-shifts-formula-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Motorsports: Mercedes Shifts to Formula E"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Another Manufacturer Joins Electric Car Racing Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mercedes is ditching the roar of four-liter fire-breathing V-8 engines for the hum and whine of electric motors. This isn\u2019t a new product announcement (though they\u2019re doing that, too), but it is related to future products. Daimler, Mercedes-Benz parent company, announced this week that it is pulling out of DTM racing, where it competes on mainly European tracks against its German luxury car rivals. The motorsports efforts will migrate starting in season six (2019\/20) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/\/green-motorsports-formula-e-electric-cars-race-in-brooklyn\/\">Formula E electric car racing<\/a> series. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8889\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8889\" src=\"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DTM-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes-Benz DTM\" width=\"250\" height=\"137\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The roar of the gas V-8 will be replaced by electric motor whine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patterned after the high-end Formula 1 series (in which Mercedes also competes), with which it shares a governing board, Formula E currently consists of 20 cars from 10 teams using standardized battery packs and cars. Over the years participants have gradually been allowed more innovations on their powertrains, something the race series has promised to open up even more in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>That is part of the attraction for Daimler, which has announced the launch of its electric EQ sub-brand. \u201cFormula E is a significant step in order to demonstrate the performance of our attractive battery-powered electric vehicles under the EQ technology brand,\u201d said Dr. Jens Thiemer, vice president of marketing, Mercedes-Benz Cars. \u201cIt is time to start a new path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race commitment will mean Mercedes is joining Audi, BMW, Jaguar and Renault among major automakers already in the series. Given two German luxury marques are already involved, the Mercedes move should be looked at as almost a forgone conclusion.<\/p>\n<h3>Part of the Launch of the EQ Label<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMercedes-Benz will market future battery powered electric vehicles using the EQ label,\u201d explained Thiemer. \u201cFormula E (gives) an emotional spin to our EQ technology brand through motorsport and marketing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toto Wolff, managing partner of both the Formula 1 and Formula E teams, views Formula E as a brand new form of racing that reflects a rapidly changing automotive landscape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8890\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8890\" src=\"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/16C889_01.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes Benz EQ\" width=\"250\" height=\"116\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Expect to see the Mercedes-Benz EQ brand in Formula E<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn motorsport like in every other area, we want to be the benchmark in the premium segment and to explore innovative new projects,\u201d he said. \u201cThe combination of Formula 1 and Formula E delivers that. Formula E is like an exciting start-up venture: it offers a brand new format, combining racing with a strong event character, in order to promote current and future technologies. Electrification is happening in the road car world and Formula E offers manufacturers an interesting platform to bring this technology to a new audience \u2013 and to do so with a completely new kind of racing, different to any other series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that Mercedes will be spending the next two seasons scoping out the competition and planning to make its entry in a forceful way. Given its track record in Formula 1 and DTM, in motorsports \u201cthe best or nothing\u201d translates into a quest for trophies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related Stories You Might Enjoy:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Green Motorsports: <a href=\"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/\/green-motorsports-formula-e-electric-cars-race-in-brooklyn\/\">Formula E\u2014Electric Cars in Brooklyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Green Motorsports: <a href=\"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/\/green-motorsports-technology-driven-excitement\/\">Technology Driven Excitement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz motorsports efforts will migrate starting in season six (2019\/20) to the Formula E electric car racing series.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24,3056,209],"tags":[200,4693,73,4595,4692],"class_list":["post-8887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-cars","category-electric-vehicles","category-green-motorsports","category-news","tag-electric-cars","tag-formula-e","tag-green-motorsports","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-racing","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleanfleetreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}