>> Introducing Formula REV

Formula REV is renowned motorsport aerodynamicist Jean-Claude Migeot and his engineering company FondTech’s vision of a future Racing Electric Vehicle (F-REV) championship.

Once completed early next year, FondTech’s initial F-REV concept – E-11 – will break new ground as the world’s first single-seater racing car conceived, designed, built and developed from the ground up to be wholly powered by electricity.

Utilising expertise gleaned from its four decades of Formula 1 and motorsport experience, FondTech and subsidiary Aerolab have spent the past three years researching the requirements of such a series, as well as developing the E-11. This is a result of the growing appetite within the industry and amongst the public to see motorsport embrace clean technology whilst maintaining current levels of performance, in this case a Formula 3 single-seater.

F-REV includes a number of radical ideas not widely embraced in single-seater racing before: an open championship unhindered by performance-curbing regulations which drives innovation through technological advance. E-11 is a first attempt at harnessing these properties.

In the spirit of competition FondTech has shared its findings with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) who the company hopes will incorporate a similar vision into its own future all-electric series. Indeed, with the world governing body recently inviting tenders for such a championship, it is clear that this concept is gathering pace.