Jaguar officially joins Formula E and going to make electric cars

Rumors were reported recently, however today the two sides made it official: Jaguar Land Rover is signing up with Formula E, the all-electric racing series. The automaker will field a group in time for the sport’s third period, which begins in late 2016. This will be the very first racing group run by Jaguar since it left Formula One right after the 2004 season.

While Jaguar hasn’t already revealed any type of concrete strategies to create a production electric vehicle, the business isn’t hiding its ambition with today’s information. In a video clip released by Jaguar recently, Nick Rogers, the company’s group engineering supervisor, says that “Jaguar Land Rover’s made clear regarding that we will certainly make electrical vehicles.” On the path to making one, he says in the coming with press release, it makes sense to join a collection focused on electric cars. “Formula E will certainly offer us an one-of-a-kind opportunity to further our advancement of electrification technologies,” Rogers states.

Along with all these new suppliers, the 2016-2017 season of Formula E will additionally have an instead special undercard series. Merely a couple of weeks earlier, the FIA announced that a brand-new initiative called “Roborace” will certainly match a field of 20 autonomous cars versus each other on the exact same road circuits where the Formula E autos contend.