FIA confirms Formula E GEN4 specs

The FIA has confirmed the technical regulations for GEN4 of Formula E at its World Motor Sport Council meeting in Macau on Tuesday.

GEN4 will arrive the season after next, following the end of a four-year run for GEN3, which featured the introduction of the mid-cycle GEN3 Evo ruleset at the start of this season.

GEN3 Evo brought in four-wheel drive for the first time, being used only for race starts, during head-to-head qualifying Duels, and when a driver is in Attack Mode in the race. For GEN4, four-wheel-drive will be permanent, making Formula E the first open-wheel series to have a grid populated exclusively by four-wheel-drive cars.

Maximum power has almost doubled, going from 350kW to 600kW, while the car's regeneration capability will go up from 600kW to 700kW, making the car capable of generating more power than it will use.

The step up in performance has already been demonstrated in early private testing of the car, with RACER sources confirming that former Honda and Force India Formula 1 test driver and ex-Maserati Formula E team principal James Rossiter clocked over 210 mph during a run at Jarama last month.

Along with details from the FIA, Formula E itself also released a pair of teaser images, one showing a narrow nose section with a swept back, multi-element front wing – part of the FIA’s announcement confirmed the introduction of two different aerodynamic configurations for high and low downforce – while the other offers a subtle glimpse at the new Bridgestone tires that will arrive for the 2026-2027 season.

Bridgestone will take over from Hankook after the Korean brand’s four-year stint in the series, and will reportedly bring two tire options for the first time in Formula E history.

Since its inception in 2014, Formula E has used a single, production-inspired all-weather tire. That all-weather ethos will remain for Bridgestone’s primary tire, but an extreme wet option will also come in.

The current single tire has proven difficult to master in extreme wet conditions, and recently we’ve seen entire qualifying and practice sessions aborted in Tokyo and Shanghai owing to inclement weather. The addition of an extreme wet option should go some way to negating those risks.

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Dominik Wilde

Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?

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