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On 13 September, motorsport will enter a new era with the first ever FIA Formula-e race, staged in China on the streets of Beijing. Contested in 200kW (270bhp) electric single-seater race cars, this championship is set to provide an important framework for research and development into “zero-emissions”* vehicles. Highly committed to electric vehicles with its Z.E.** range, Renault provided its expertise in the design of the Spark-Renault SRT_01E, the car that will be used by the ten teams competing in the championship.

Renault is equally the title partner of the e.dams team set up by Alain Prost and Jean-Paul Driot. Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Prost are the drivers tasked with competing on behalf of e.dams-Renault during the ten rounds of the inaugural season of the FIA Formula-e championship.

*   No CO₂, no regulated atmospheric pollutants, while driving.
** ZOE, Twizy, Kangoo Z.E. and Fluence Z.E.

Find out more from the press kit here.