The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season consists of a series of races, each known as an ePrix. These take place in multiple countries and continents around the world, mostly on street circuits created specifically for Formula E on closed public roads in the centre of major cities, with a small number on purpose-built circuits such as Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. A points system is used at each ePrix to determine two annual World Championships: one for the drivers, and one for the teams. Each driver must hold a valid e-Licence issued by the FIA to compete.
Formula E cars are one of the fastest racing cars in the world. Major changes made for the 2022–23 season in the development of the Gen3 car were delivered as software updates directly to the advanced operating system built into the car. The estimated top speed is 322 km/h (200 mph). The battery is also designed to be able to handle "flash-charging" delivering up to 600 kW of power, allowing pitstop recharging into the championship for the first time. The wheelbase has been reduced from 3100 mm to 2970 mm and the weight reduced to 760 kg.
For the first four seasons, an electric racing car built by Spark Racing Technology, called the Spark-Renault SRT 01E, was used. The second-generation ("Gen2") Formula E car, the Spark SRT05e, was introduced in the 2018–19 season and featured significant technological advances over the previous car. The Gen3 Formula E car was unveiled at the 2022 Monaco ePrix for use from the ninth season onwards. The Gen4 car for Formula E was officially unveiled on November 5, 2025, and is designed to deliver a significant performance uplift compared to the preceding Gen3 Evo car.
The proposal for a city-based, single-seater electric car motor racing championship was conceived by Jean Todt, the president of the world governing body of motorsport, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), and presented to politicians Alejandro Agag and Antonio Tajani at a dinner in Paris on 3 March 2011. Agag supported Todt's proposal after the latter discussed the FIA opening up a tender to organise the series. As of 2024, Formula E's founder and Spanish businessman Alejandro Agag is the company’s Chairman, and the Chief Executive Officer is Jeff Dodds.
The Formula E championship is currently contested by 20 drivers and 10 teams as of the 2026 season. Racing generally takes place on temporary city-centre street circuits, that are around 1.9 to 3.4 km (1.2 to 2.1 mi) long, although the series is slowly moving towards racing on more traditional circuits, such as Shanghai International Circuit. All practice sessions in Formula E are usually 40 minutes long. The qualifying session typically takes place later in the day and lasts approximately one hour. Formula E, like most other major motorsport series, currently has races that have a certain lap distance set. A feature called 'Pit Boost' was introduced during Season 11, where the drivers would come into the pits to service a mandatory 30 second pit stop that will charge the batteries, and add 3.85 kWh of energy to them.
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