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Formula E Is Growing Fastest Among 13 to 24-Year-Olds

Halfway through Formula E’s fourth season, the electric car racing league is touting rapid growth among teenagers and young adults as it pushes video through social channels. The league, the world’s first featuring fully-electric single-seater cars, said the number of 13 to 17-year-olds viewing Formula E content on social channels rocketed 347 percent year-over-year in […]

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Auto Racing-Inspired Technology To Help Airbus Drone Program

A division of Williams Grand Prix Engineering, a Formula One racing team, has signed a deal with aeronautics giant Airbus to provide auto racing-inspired technology to help further develop the capabilities of drones. Williams Advanced Engineering, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), will collaborate with Airbus on the company’s Zephyr High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) program. Specifically, […]

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Formula E’s Sébastien Buemi Challenged in Virtual Reality Experience

A new virtual reality experience at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Switzerland will have people trying to beat Renault eDams driver Sébastien Buemi’s fastest lap time from last season’s FIA Formula E Paris ePrix. The experience, created by a company called Virtually Live that aims to enhance the way fans watch professional sports, offers […]

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DHL’s Autonomous EffiBOT Trolley Aids Formula E Pit Crews

The electric-car Formula E series arrived in Brooklyn last weekend for a pair of races in the New York City ePrix, where the circuit’s commitment to green technology extended to the pits where the teams had an autonomous helper ferrying supplies. DHL, a major sponsor and the official logistics partner of Formula E, has provided […]

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Visa Promotes Payment Tech At New York ePrix, Confederations Cup

NEW YORK — Visa’s Avin Arumugam, SVP of Internet of Things, felt that the first Formula E race in Brooklyn was the perfect place to showcase the bells and whistles offered by the payments technology company and jumped at the opportunity. When Formula E vehicles that are electric-powered zoom around New York City with the skyline […]

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