Why Extreme E plans to swap its E for an H

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Why Extreme E plans to swap its E for an H

Racer.com | Dominik Wilde | September 30, 2023

Extreme E is still a fresh addition to the world of motorsport, but with its stock still on the rise, it’s about to press the reset button.

Last month Extreme E announced that it had signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with the FIA to develop the first hydrogen-powered motorsport series, under which it could become an official FIA world championship by 2026. With the countdown clock ticking down to the debut of the provisionally titled Extreme H, series founder and CEO Alejandro Agag and its managing director Ali Russell have shed more light on the development of the category.

Agag says he expects Extreme E in its current form to go away when the hydrogen-powered cars arrive, with the idea behind the switch being to create a testbed for future technologies.

“At the end of the day what’s important for me is the relevance from the technology point of view,” says Agag, who points out that battery technology development, which will fall by the wayside when Extreme H arrives, is already happening in Formula E...

“That for me is exactly why we’re going into hydrogen,” Russell explains. “There’s some challenges around hydrogen at this moment in time, and it’s not that we’re we’re turning our back on our E-mobility because essentially the route that we’ve chosen to go down as a fuel cell route, it’s still driving, propelling an electric vehicle, we’re just looking at how can we do that, and break down some of the barriers that consumers have.”..more
https://racer.com/2023/09/30/why-extreme-e-plans-to-swap-its-e-for-an-h/

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1. It's no surprise...

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