Formula E shows the mind-boggling speed at which electric cars evolve
Zero: The Climate Race
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4.7 • 219 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
You’ve heard about Formula 1, right? But do you know about Formula E, its plucky all-electric sibling? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi talks with Sylvain Filippi, co-founder and chief technology officer of Envision Racing, about why the world needs an electric racing series, how Formula E is improving the experience for consumer electric cars, and why he’s not too concerned about the US backlash against EVs.
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| 0:00.0 | On his podcast Chasing Life, I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. |
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| 0:13.2 | Are some people just born happier than others? |
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshutrati. This week, we are off to the races. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you. This week, we are off to the races. Backshap, where are we today? |
| 0:51.8 | This is a different podcast to you shop. |
| 0:53.8 | It is different. We are still in London, but we are inside an exhibition hall, which has been turned into a racetrack for an electric car race, a Formula E. You've heard about Formula One, right? But do you know about Formula E? |
| 1:12.4 | It's plucky, all-electric sibling? |
| 1:16.4 | Earlier this year, I went to watch the Formula E race here in London with Zero's producer Oscar Boyd. |
| 1:18.4 | Where are we in the kind of grand complex of the exhibition centre? |
| 1:22.0 | We are in the pit lane looking at essentially broken apart cars right now |
| 1:26.5 | that are being readied for a race that's about to start in a couple of hours. |
| 1:31.3 | And these are all electric cars. |
| 1:33.3 | These are all electric cars. |
| 1:34.3 | It was the last race of a very busy season. |
| 1:36.3 | We had been invited by Envision Racing, one of 11 teams, each with two cars competing in Formula E. |
| 1:43.3 | And as part of the tour, I got to go see the pit lane before the race started, |
| 1:47.0 | and later even walk alongside the cars parked on the starting line. |
| 1:51.0 | I also spoke to one of Envision Racing's drivers, Sebastian Buemi. |
| 1:56.0 | It's the top electric racing series you can have in the world. |
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