The 2024–25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship was the eleventh season of the FIA Formula E championship, a motor racing championship for electrically powered vehicles recognised by motorsport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for electric open-wheel racing cars.
Oliver Rowland, driving for the Nissan Formula E Team, won his first World Drivers' Championship with two races to spare at the Berlin ePrix. TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team won the Teams' Championship for the first time in their history at the final race of the season, with Porsche also winning the Manufacturers' Championship.
Teams and drivers All teams used the Formula E Gen3 Evo car on Hankook tyres. TeamPowertrainNo.DriversRounds TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E TeamPorsche 99X Electric1 Pascal WehrleinAll13 António Félix da CostaAll Maserati MSG RacingMaserati Tipo Folgore2 Stoffel VandoorneAll55 Jake HughesAll Cupra KiroPorsche 99X Electric WCG33 David BeckmannAll33 Dan TicktumAll Envision RacingJaguar I-Type 74 Robin FrijnsAll 16 Sébastien BuemiAll Neom McLaren Formula E TeamNissan e-4ORCE 055 Taylor BarnardAll8 Sam BirdAll DS PenskeDS E-Tense FE25 7 Maximilian GüntherAll 25 Jean-Éric VergneAll Jaguar TCS RacingJaguar I-Type 79 Mitch EvansAll37 Nick CassidyAll Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E TeamLola-Yamaha T00111 Lucas di GrassiAll22 Zane MaloneyAll Nissan Formula E TeamNissan e-4ORCE 0517 Norman Nato1–12, 15–16 Sérgio Sette Câmara13–1423 Oliver RowlandAll Mahindra Racing Mahindra M11Electro21 Nyck de Vries1–12, 15–16 Felipe Drugovich13–1448 Edoardo MortaraAll Andretti Formula EPorsche 99X Electric27 Jake DennisAll51 Nico MüllerAllSource:
Team changes British motorsport brand Lola announced its return to top-level motorsport for the first time since the 2006 Champ Car World Series. Lola entered Formula E developing its own powertrain in cooperation with Yamaha. This partnership supplied powertrains to ABT, who had previously used Mahindra powertrains but ended that affiliation, and the team entered the season as Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team.
After just a single year running, ERT Formula E Team was acquired by investment firm The Forest Road Company. The team rebranded as Kiro Race Co and raced under an American license. The team also ceased to be its own manufacturer, forming an agreement with Porsche to use its 2023–24 powertrain instead. Ahead of the São Paulo ePrix weekend, Cupra entered into a partnership with Kiro Race Co to enter the season as Cupra Kiro Race Co. Cupra previously partnered with Abt in the last two seasons of the championship.
Driver changes Season 8 champion Stoffel Vandoorne ended his contract with DS Penske after two seasons and joined Maserati MSG Racing in place of Maximilian Günther, who signed with DS Penske, thereby completing a driver swap between the two Stellantis-owned outfits. Jehan Daruvala's contract at Maserati was also not renewed, with the team instead signing McLaren driver Jake Hughes. To replace Hughes, McLaren promoted reserve and developmental driver Taylor Barnard to a full-time drive.
Andretti driver Norman Nato left the team after a single season to return to the Nissan Formula E Team, with whom he last raced in 2023, replacing Sacha Fenestraz, who left the team after two seasons to return to Super Formula with Team TOM'S. Nico Müller left ABT after two seasons with the team to replace Nato at Andretti. Müller's replacement at ABT was announced to be Formula 2 driver and former Andretti reserve driver Zane Maloney, who made his Formula E debut, thereby becoming the first Barbadian driver to compete in the series.
New team Cupra Kiro signed Porsche reserve driver David Beckmann for his full-time debut alongside Dan Ticktum. He replaced Sérgio Sette Câmara, who was hired by Nissan Formula E Team as reserve driver.
Mid-season Two drivers missed the Berlin E-Prix double-header because of a calendar clash with the FIA World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of São Paulo. Nissan's Norman Nato was replaced by the team's reserve driver Sérgio Sette Câmara, while Mahindra's Nyck de Vries was replaced by 2022 Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich.
Calendar The following ePrix took place in the 2024–25 Formula E World Championship.
RoundE-PrixCountryCircuitDate1São Paulo ePrixSão Paulo Street Circuit7 December 20242Mexico City ePrixAutódromo Hermanos Rodríguez11 January 20253Jeddah ePrixJeddah Corniche Circuit14 February 2025415 February 20255Miami ePrixHomestead–Miami Speedway12 April 20256Monaco ePrixCircuit de Monaco3 May 202574 May 20258Tokyo ePrixTokyo Street Circuit17 May 2025918 May 202510Shanghai ePrixShanghai International Circuit31 May 2025111 June 202512Jakarta ePrixJakarta International e-Prix Circuit21 June 202513Berlin ePrixTempelhof Airport Street Circuit12 July 20251413 July 202515London ePrixExCeL London Circuit26 July 20251627 July 2025Source:
Regulation changes
Technical regulations The championship introduced an upgrade to its Gen3 ruleset, called Gen3 Evo. The updated ruleset featured a new chassis package featuring a more robust front wing and new Hankook tyres aimed at providing increased grip. The new car also contained an active front power train to be used in qualifying, the race start and during attack mode, increasing acceleration and power output.
Quick-charging pit stops were introduced from the Jeddah E-Prix onwards, more than two years after the initial announcement of the feature. The new "Pit Boost" was used in all double-header race weekends of the season. It required all drivers to make a mandatory pit stop taking around 30 seconds, during which the cars' batteries were recharged by around 10%. This pit stop had to be taken in a certain window in the race, chosen by the race officials prior to the event. No other work on the cars was allowed to be carried out during the quick-charging pit stops, and only one car per team was able to take this stop at a time.
Sporting regulations The Manufacturers' Trophy introduced in season ten became a World Championship title alongside the Teams' and Drivers' titles. Points were awarded in a similar manner to the Teams' title and are based on the performance of each manufacturer's two highest-scoring cars in every race.
Season report Pre-season Pre-season testing for the 2024–25 season was set to take place at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia from 4–7 November 2024, before flooding in the area forced the championship to postpone and relocate the test to Circuito del Jarama on 5–8 November 2024. Both Nissan and Jaguar were forced to skip the first of the four days as part of their penalty for exceeding the cost cap in the 2022–23 season. Still, Jaguar and Mitch Evans set the fastest time of the test on the final day ahead of Cupra Kiro’s Dan Ticktum and Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein, with the reigning champion also leading his teammate António Félix da Costa to a Porsche 1-2 in the test’s traditional simulation race. An all-female test session, the first of its kind in an FIA-sanctioned championship, concluded pre-season testing on 8 November. 2024 F1 Academy champion Abbi Pulling posted the fastest time, driving for Nissan.
Opening rounds The season began with the São Paulo ePrix, where reigning champion Wehrlein beat Nissan’s Oliver Rowland in the final duel to claim pole position. The Gen3 Evo’s active front powertrain coupled with a new softer tyre compound saw drivers able to easily gain many positions while in attack mode, with Jaguar’s Nick Cassidy using it to take an early lead as Wehrlein dropped to fifth. Rowland reclaimed the lead on lap 14, swapping first place with both Porsche drivers before Jake Dennis’ Andretti suffered an electrical failure causing a red flag. Rowland led the restart before being hit with a drive-through penalty. Cassidy’s final attack mode vaulted him to first place before Evans, who had started 22nd and spent the race climbing up the order, took the lead. Cassidy and Wehrlein made contact while fighting behind him, which saw the latter flip and hit the wall heavily, triggering a second red flag. Evans led the three-lap restart to win by 0.3 seconds ahead of da Costa and McLaren’s Taylor Barnard, who became the series’ youngest podium finisher.
Round two, the Mexico City ePrix, saw Porsche lock out the front row in qualifying, with Wehrlein ahead of da Costa. Wehrlein led for the first 15 laps before Dennis used attack mode to overtake him. The Porsche-powered trio battled for the podium positions for most of the race. A safety car interrupted the race late on when Cupra Kiro's David Beckmann collided with Lola Yamaha ABT's Lucas di Grassi. Rowland, who had taken attack mode shortly before the safety car was called, was still in the higher power mode when the race resumed and used that advantage to overtake Dennis, Wehrlein and da Costa within twelve corners to take the lead. Immediately after, another safety car was called as Evans had collided with Andretti's Nico Müller. Rowland held off an attacking da Costa on the final restart to win the race for Nissan, with da Costa and Wehrlein rounding out the podium, and Dennis finishing fourth. Back-to-back podiums meant that da Costa took an early lead in the championship, 12 points ahead of Rowland, with Evans now third.
The first double header of the season saw Formula E debut around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit for the Jeddah ePrix. The weekend began with a rookie free practice session, where Formula 2 driver Kush Maini set the fastest time for Mahindra. Race one brought the debut of the new 'pit boost' format. DS Penske's Maximilian Günther started from pole position and led until a safety car was called to recover debris from the car of da Costa after a collision with Müller. Günther gave up the lead to Rowland in order to save energy, and the latter controlled the race after the pitstops. The introduction of pit boost did not go without issues, with Ticktum's car requiring a reset that dropped him out of a top ten position. Towards the end of the race, Rowland began to struggle for energy, allowing Günther to overtake him in the final lap and win the race. Barnard came third to secure another podium in just his fourth Formula E race. A second-place finish for Rowland meant he took the championship lead, ahead of da Costa by four points.
The second race followed the regular format without mandatory pitstops. Barnard became the youngest pole sitter in Formula E history, starting from the front row alongside Rowland. On the opening lap, Günther misjudged his braking into turn two and crashed into da Costa, forcing both into retirement. Barnard led the early part of the race before being overtaken by Rowland on lap 9. Envision's Robin Frijns took the lead on lap 12, but was lower on energy than the following cars, allowing Rowland to retake first place two laps later. Barnard and Dennis then both led for brief stints after activating their attack modes, but Rowland crucially saved his final six minutes of higher power until late in the race. He retook first place with five laps to go and quickly built a gap, aided by a four-car battle breaking out for second place. That fight was won by Barnard, who finished second after overtaking two cars in one corner, while Maserati MSG Racing's Jake Hughes rounded out the podium. Rowland's points lead now stood at 17 points.