Nelson Piquet Jr. will partner Mitch Evans at Jaguar for the 2017/18 Formula E season, replacing Adam Carroll. Piquet, the inaugural series champion, moves across from the NextEV/NIO team following a year in which Jaguar finished last in the teams' standings, although team director James Barclay predicts a significant step...

Chinese auto manufacturer NextEV, which also fields a Formula E race team, launched its all-electric NIO EP9 supercar in London today.­The electric supercar achieved a new lap record at the Nurburgring Nordschliefe on Oct. 12, when the EP9 lapped the 12.9-mile "Green Hell" circuit in 7m05.12s. Additionally, on Nov. 4,...

Dr Martin Leach, chief of the NextEV Formula E team and a long-time automotive industry executive, has died at the age of 59.Leach was a co-founder of the NextEV electric car company that took charge of what had started out as Team China in the inaugural FE season. A successful...

The NextEV Formula E team's dramatic fade from a front-row lockout to eighth and 11th in the Hong Kong ePrix has been put down to poor efficiency.Nelson Piquet Jr. led almost the entire first stint from pole position before dropping to third after hitting the wall avoiding a crashed Jose...

Jaguar claimed Adam Carroll's 12th-place finish in Hong Kong was what it expected from a "cautious" Formula E debut.The Northern Irishman and teammate Mitch Evans, who retired, qualified more than a second off pole position, with Jaguar the only team not to get at least one car within a second...

Nelson Piquet Jr. headed a shock NextEV one-two in qualifying for the 2016-'17 Formula E season opener in Hong Kong.The inaugural FE champion claimed his first pole position in a qualifying session that was red-flagged twice and ended without a superpole, which was cancelled due to time constraints.Piquet endured a...

Jean-Eric Vergne set the quickest time across the two practice sessions for Formula E's 2016/17 season opener in Hong Kong.The Techeetah driver used his Renault powertrain to full effect to top the second of the two Sunday morning sessions, clocking a 1m02.350s around the 1.86km Hong Kong central harbor-front circuit.That...

Daniel Abt topped a rain-hit final day of the opening 2016/17 Formula E preseason test at Donington Park.Overnight rain and light drizzle ensured a wet start to Thursday's running, though the track conditions improved sufficiently for a spate of 200kW qualifying power dry runs at the end of the morning...

Indy Lights race winner Dean Stoneman will make his Formula E testing debut with the NextEV team at Donington Park this week.The Briton, who tested an IndyCar for the first time earlier this month, will drive the NextEV 700R on Thursday, the final day of the opening pre-season test. He...

Inaugural Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr and Oliver Turvey will remain with the NextEV team for the 2016/17 FE season.Piquet and Turvey endured a difficult 2015/16 campaign with the Chinese-backed operation, which struggled with a heavy twin-motor powertrain. Rookie Turvey outscored Piquet 11-8 in the drivers' championship but the...