New FIA Formula E Championship

[bulla003]

A month ago maybe, the FIA announced that a new FIA Formula E Championship is launching. This new FIA championship is featuring Formula cars powered exclusively by electric energy. Demonstration runs of the Formula E cars will start in 2013, followed by the championship in 2014 with an objective of 10 teams and 20 drivers participating in the competition.

The series will be open to any cars sanctioned as Formula E by the FIA. The consortium will ensure that a Formula E Car, based on the Formulec EF 01 prototype already in operation, is available for those competing teams willing to race with it.

Anybody got any idea as to how many events will be in the championship and where (and if it is free) to watch it live.

[designndrive62]

All I know is they have tried to launch this as a series for 3 years in a row, with no success so far... There was also the EV Cup which was meant to launch two years ago then dissappeared without a trace, their website hasn't been updated since October 2011.
Hope it does get off the ground though, maybe with backing from the FIA now and Drayson technologies as well it may get somewhere....

[Life Saab Itch]

The car looked awesome at the GFOS this year.

I think Drayson is the man to champion this. It's a shame that an equivalent of TTX can't run parallel to existing series such as WEC/F1/WTCC