Fisker to join Extreme E off-road electric SUV racing series

EV producer Fisker has fully commited to Intense E, the business confirmed Monday, and is in “superior talks” to turn into a sequence associate and possibly discipline a manufacturing unit workforce.

The Intense E sequence is the brain boy or girl of System E mastermind Alejandro Agag. It will aspect function-created 4x4s EVs racing in distant, spectator-free of charge venues with protection provided by drones. The sequence will take a look at distant areas of Nepal and Saudi Arabia, amongst other locales, and teams will be transported from a person leg to the subsequent by using ship. Intense E is refitting a seven,716-ton previous Royal Mail Ship, the RMS St. Helena, to serve as transportation and floating paddock. There will be five races in the 2021 season — if all goes to strategy.

The series’ distant character will make it significantly less obtainable to admirers, but the choice of these types of locales was meant to emphasize “[…] the affect of local climate alter and human interference in some of the world’s most distant spots and promotes the adoption of electric powered vehicles to help maintain the ecosystem and safeguard the planet,” the sequence announcement stated. 

“Alejandro brought electric powered car or truck racing into the mainstream with System E and I completely help his vision to reinvent off-highway racing at the very same time as building an education and learning system for the threats posed by local climate alter. Intense E and Fisker Inc. are entirely aligned in our mission and values,” stated CEO Henrik Fisker.

Intense E will use a spec chassis. Dubbed the Odyssey 21, it will be created by French business Spark and run by batteries developed by the Williams System A single workforce. Spark says the Odyssey 21 can do -sixty two mph in 4.5 seconds and with a range of 200km in non-racing situations. The top pace is about two hundred kph (or about 120 mph).

Although the chassis and battery pack will be provided, producer teams will be tasked with creating their possess electric powered motor and inverter. They will also have leeway in designing specific system panels, allowing them to make the Odyssey 21 glance extra like their possess production models.