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FondTech E-11 EV racer as quick as a Formula 3 car

By Tim Beissmann |

It’s not pretty, but one former Formula One aero engineer believes the FondTech E-11 could represent the future of motorsport.

Headed by one-time Ferrari F1 aerodynamist Jean-Claude Migeot, the E-11 project is FondTech’s take on the concept of a future Racing Electric Vehicle (F-REV).

Migeot says the single-seater will be as fast around a track as a conventional Formula 3 race car, yet use no fuel and produce zero emissions.

“We hope the vehicle will spark the curiosity and interest of the FIA,” Migeot said.

“E-11 is by no means the pinnacle of F-REV design. Instead, it is a fusion of what is possible today utilising technology still in its infancy and bringing together many untried ideas.”

A series of lithium-ion batteries will power four electric motors – positioned one at each wheel.

With a total weight of just 800kg, the 300kW racer is expected to launch from 0-100km/h in just 3.2 seconds and go on to a top speed of 260km/h.

FondTech estimates the E-11 will have a racing range of around 50km, which would be enough to complete nine laps of Melbourne’s Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit.

The E-11 will be all-wheel drive and incorporate energy recovery and storage systems in its split-level carbon fibre chassis.

FondTech says a prototype of the E-11 will be ready for testing from the beginning of next year.

What do you think of the FondTech E-11 concept? Let us know in the comments section below.


 
  • Hugh Jorgan

    We need to take advantage of the huge budgets and brains in top level motorsport. Let’s have categories that force the development of technologies that we need. F1 has sort of done this with KERS and the move back to smaller capacity turbo engines (in the future). They still have to be open wheel and can’t use CVTs etc etc, which is in-efficient. I understand it’s a fine line between entertainment and moving technology forward. Entertainment = fans = dollars.

  • http://www.ss.com Tom

    its all good for 3.2 to 100 and good top speeds but range me thinks will let it down! Albeit Im a huge advocate for EVs

  • http://www.urvuorvubv.com geyser

    What would a motor race be without the sound of screaming engines ?

  • Commentator

    It won’t have combustion engine sounds, so it’s a difficult concept to sell to the crowd who are accustomed hearing proper loud engine sounds, which of course adds to the entertainment.

  • Corkas

    Its not the car letting it down here.
    I think this has a lot op potential to become a great racer.

    The problem here (as with all EV) is recharge time.
    If somehow you could charge the batteries in the same amount of time and effort it takes to fill a car with fuel then i would buy an electric car…

    but say for example you wanted to enter this in the le mans 24 hour…………
    my point exactly…

    • AJDelayed

      The idea is to have replacement battery packs. That would be as quick as a fuel stop.

  • Ford Fairlane

    Wow the first ev race car even looks like a scalelectric.

  • JSTTRS

    This is SOOO gay!!!

    You wouldn’t even hear the stupid thing going past! It was like those retared Lexus Prius things at Albert Park Celeb Race.. Even then, to make ANY noise, cut the muffler off and left a striaght pipe just so there would be some noise.. Let alone these things only top out at 260.. My road car does that, and isn’t far off that 0-100 time..

    Totally and utterly gay. Anyone who loves cars will agree

  • Charger

    Im all for Technology etc etc but that would be the most boring race series ever, lets watch silence go aroudn the track, no smell, no noise, no passion. It would be like watching a bunch or remote control cars with drivers that stop every 9 laps for more power.

    I can see it now “heading onto the final straight finish line in sight and oh no his battery is flat he needs a power point!!!!”

  • Harry

    did anyone notice the proportions of this thing? The size alone shows the technology still has a long way to come. To my mind it is probably the electric equivalent of the Bentleys in the 1930s where they needed to have huge long bonnets with large capacity engines in order to get only low power outputs.

  • Freddo

    Fast as a current f1…really? With a centre of gravity that high and tyres that small not possible.