As a prelude to the New York E-Prix this weekend, Porsche takes the opportunity to parade through the streets of Big Apple.
New York shines the spotlight on electromobility and sustainability. Before the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team made its New York debut, two fully electric Porsche cars, a 99X Electric and a Taycan 4S turned heads in a spectacular photoshoot in the famous Times Square. in the whole world.
Electric Porsches on parade in New York
This weekend, the 10th and 11th rounds of this season’s Formula E World Championship will take place in the streets of Brooklyn. As the world’s first electric racing series, Formula E has brought thrilling auto racing to fascinating metropolises such as New York City.
From Porsche’s perspective, this is the most competitive arena for advancing the development of high-performance vehicles with an emphasis on environmental friendliness, fuel efficiency and sustainability.
The Porsche 99X Electric, which has been in Formula E since 2019, also serves Porsche engineers as a development platform for the sports car maker’s production electric models. The vehicle’s 800-volt technology is also found in the Taycan, Porsche’s first fully-electric production sports car, a prototype of which was unveiled to the global public in New York in 2019.
In New York City, electromobility and sustainability are not the only key factors of this Formula E weekend. With more than 1,750 electric cars, the city can boast of having the largest fleet of electric vehicles in the country. . This figure is expected to rise to 2,000 by the end of 2025.
The metropolis is on track to achieve the goal of 10,000 publicly accessible charging stations by the end of 2021. The city’s school bus fleet will be fully electric by 2035. And the population fully supports this. initiative: New Yorkers already use less energy per capita than residents of any other state except Rhode Island.
Formula E races take place Saturday and Sunday at the Red Hook Circuit, around the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, with Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop. Each race lasts 45 minutes plus one lap.
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