The Trulli Formula E Team suffered energy problems throughout the Miami ePrix, which made the ePrix harder for the team.

Trulli and Liuzzi finished in 15th and 16th place in Miami. However, due to the battery problems the team had in Miami they were unable to push for any points scoring positions.

Liuzzi was having a solid race at the beginning, as he was running in the points in the early stages of the race. It would be a few laps later that Luzzi would run into trouble with his battery which allowed the other drivers to pass him.

“I think I had a little too good of a time in the beginning following the pace of the others and really getting into the racing as the car had good pace and felt good. The problem was that five laps in, I got the message to slow down to regenerate as we were consuming too much energy. The rest of the race commenced like this, regenerating and saving battery to make sure we could finish.” said Liuzzi.

As well as having a problem with the battery in the first car, Liuzzi ran into problems with his second car as it would not select first gear, which left the Italian driver in the pits for longer than he would have liked.

“Then we had a problem in the pit-stop as the second car didn’t start properly, we still have to understand why, so we didn’t have the easiest start in the second stint. Now we have to work with the team to understand why the energy consumption was so high in the beginning,” said Liuzzi.

Jarno Trulli also had problems savings his battery life, as his battery was draining extremely fast and the team owner was unable to save energy without decreasing the power usage from the car.

“We struggled quite a lot with the battery, temperature, and consumption, which weren’t looking good even from the beginning. I had to slow down every lap as the consumption was going too high. So now we have to understand what we can do why and what we need to change.” said Trulli.

The team will be looking at what went wrong with the energy consumption in Miami in the three-week break to Long Beach for the second American race of the season.