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"This is not just a car, this is a weapon for climate change," said Formula E Founder and CEO Alejandro Agag when he first laid eyes on the new Gen2 car for Season 5 of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. And he's right. When Agag created the world's first fully-electric international single-seater racing series back in 2013, he saw it as an opportunity to, "create a new space - a new championship - that would bring together sustainability and racing."
And that's exactly what he did. Using battery-powered cars, fueled using glycerine - a revolutionary zero per cent emission and 100 per cent renewable fuel - the first Formula E race took shape in the Chinese capital of Beijing. But we've come a long way since then - a very long way indeed. To celebrate all that progress and to mark World Environment Day, we're releasing our season three sustainability report as well as looking back at our finest (and greenest) moments from season three.
We drove a Formula E car on an ice cap
Well, Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler's Lucas di Grassi did to be precise. Why? He did it to highlight the rate at which the ice caps in the Arctic are melting away as a result of warmer temperatures, much of which is caused by combustion engined vehicle emissions. Watch the clip to find out the full story.
We offset our carbon footprint for the race in New York City
Formula E made history in New York City zero-emission event in the championship’s history. Partnering up with Enel, the energy company entirely offset the emissions of the event in New York through green certificates from its portfolio of renewable energy plants, such as the Enel Green Power Stipa Nayaa 74 MW wind farm in Mexico.
We partnered up with Cop22 and The Climate Group
To help us achieve our goals in season three, we partnered up with Cop22 - the United Nations Climate Change Conference - for the race in Marrakesh and The Climate Group as a Global Ambassador for EV100 - the campaign to help promote the widespread uptake of electric vehicles. With big brands on board such as Unilever, Baidu, IKEA Group and DHL, members of EV100 have pledged to implement charging schemes in the workplace and swap current diesel and petrol fleets to fully-electric by 2030. In short, just make sure it's electric, right?
Looking for more? Click here to view our full season three sustainability report.