{"id":387649,"date":"2021-12-30T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/formula-e-the-all-electric-circuit-race-is-back-and-quiet-as-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:54:55","slug":"formula-e-the-all-electric-circuit-race-is-back-and-quiet-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/formula-e-the-all-electric-circuit-race-is-back-and-quiet-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"#Formula E\u2014the all-electric circuit race\u2014is back and quiet as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Formula E\u2014the all-electric circuit race\u2014is back and quiet as ever<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The first Vancouver E-Prix will take place in False Creek over Canada Day weekend 2022\n <\/div>\n
\n Seventeen years after the Molson Indy Vancouver left Western Canada, a new circuit race is coming to the Indy\u2019s former racing grounds\u2014and it\u2019s literally all electric. Formula E is slated to take place in False Creek, Vancouver, over the 2022 Canada Day weekend.<\/p>\n

During the first Vancouver E-Prix, Formula E vehicles will speed along the 2.21-kilometre, 15-turn circuit in a 45-minute race. In contrast to Formula 1, where the race is set over a number of laps, Formula E races are timed to minimize the risk of the cars running out of power. And while F1 vehicles reach speeds of 360 km\/h and go from zero to 100 km\/h in 2.6 seconds, electric engines still pack power, reaching speeds of up to 280 km\/h and going from zero to 100 km\/h in 2.8 seconds.<\/p>\n

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ABB FIA Formula E Championship \u2013 New York City E-Prix Round 10, on July 10, 2021 (Jaguar Racing\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Racecar fans might miss the ear-splitting noise they\u2019re used to, though: the E-cars only reach 80 dB, the equivalent of highway traffic noise.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttack mode\u201d is another unique part of E-racing. Drivers make a pit stop in an off-circuit charge zone to get a 30-kilowatt boost (around 143 kilometres if you were to charge a Tesla) that the driver has five minutes to use.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver electric race follows Formula E\u2019s disastrous start in Montreal back in 2017, when Montrealers complained that the event caused construction and traffic\u2014not to mention costing taxpayers $35 million. Four years later, Vancouver\u2019s city council app<\/a>roved the event on the condition that no city dollars would be spent on the race, and in the hope it would boost tourism.<\/p>\n\n

This article appears in print in the January 2022 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s magazine with the headline, \u201cAn all-electric race.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here<\/a>.<\/em>
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