Eight Manufactures will take part in Formula E next season. Manufactures will be focusing on the electric motor and efficiency of the electric motors in season two.

Formula E have implemented a rule that allows all teams to buy a power-train from the manufactures at a capped price. This rule is to allow small teams with limited budgets to still compete with the bigger teams.

The eight manufactures that have been selected are ABT Sportsline, Andretti, Mahindra, Motomatica, NEXTEV TCR, Renault Sport, Venturi Automobiles, Virgin Racing Engineering.

Alejandro Agag has said that the manufactures have already brought chassis to start working on the electric motors and they should be able to test them on track in early July.

“The manufactures have brought a chassis to start developing them already. They should have them by April and they should hopefully be ready to crash test in May and June and hopefully they will be ready to go out onto the track in early July” said Agag

Season three and four, the manufactures will be able to start looking at the battery of a Formula E car. However, the big leap is expected in year five when Formula E will only run one car.

“The manufactures will be working on the battery in season three and four to make them more efficient and hopefully to last longer, but the big leap will happen in season five when they have to build only one car to last the whole race” said Agag

Agag admits that is an ambitious challenge to double the capacity of Formula E cars in five years, but he is more than confident that the manufactures in a competitive environment will be able to improve electric cars greatly and hopefully see the results from Formula E in electric road cars in the future.

Agag is hopefully that more manufactures will still come to Formula E in season three.

“We will have meetings with these organisations and show them that this championship is here to stay and hopefully they will join as well in season three.”