The start of an Electric ABB FIA Formula E Season

By Kayleigh Northall.

The 2025-26 season of the ABB FIA Formula E season is the 12th season of the championship. This season began in December 2025 in Sao Paulo, Brazil and will end in a Double header in London in August 2026.
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. It began in December 2025 and will end in August 2026.

It is the fourth and final season of the Formula E Gen3 Evo, with the Gen4 regulations coming into effect the following season.

Teams and drivers
All teams use the Formula E Gen3 Evo car on Hankook tyres.
After three years of competing in the series, McLaren announced in April 2025 that the McLaren Formula E Team would not return to the championship for the 2025–26 season to focus on its Le Mans Daytona project in the World Endurance Championship. The team did not find a buyer and shut down, leaving Nissan without a customer team for the first time since the 2021–22 season.

Citroën announced they would be joining Formula E in the 2025–26 season, as Stellantis replaced Maserati MSG Racing, which had competed in the series for 3 years, with the Citroën brand. This marked the marque’s debut in top-level single-seater racing.

TAG Heuer ended their partnership with Porsche after being their title sponsor for six seasons.

Driver changes
Envision Racing and Robin Frijns parted ways at the end of the 2024–25 season following six seasons together across two spells, with Frijns focusing on his FIA WEC Hypercar program with BMW M Team WRT. To replace Frijns, the team signed Jaguar’s reserve driver Joel Eriksson, who entered ten Formula E races in 2021 and 2024, for his full-season debut.

Taylor Barnard, who finished fourth in his debut season with McLaren, moved to DS Penske, replacing Jean-Éric Vergne, who ended his affiliation with the DS Automobiles brand after eight seasons. Vergne moved over to newly entered Stellantis sister brand Citroën, where he was joined by season eleven runner-up Nick Cassidy, who departed Jaguar TCS Racing after two seasons with the team. This saw former champion Stoffel Vandoorne leave Maserati MSG to become Jaguar’s reserve driver, while Jake Hughes become Mahindra’s reserve driver.

António Félix da Costa departed the Porsche Formula E Team after three seasons as he moved to Jaguar TCS Racing to replace Citroën-bound Cassidy. The team signed Nico Müller, who departed Andretti after a single season with the American team, where he finished 15th in the standings. To replace Müller, Andretti signed 2022 Formula 2 Champion Felipe Drugovich for his full-season debut after he made a one-round appearance in the 2024–25 season with Mahindra Racing.

David Beckmann left Cupra Kiro after a season with the team and returned to reserve driver duties at Porsche. He was replaced by former Red Bull junior driver Pepe Martí, who graduated from Formula 2, where he drove for Campos Racing.

Departing team McLaren saw Taylor Barnard move to DS Penske, while Sam Bird would not return to race in the series after having taken part in every season since the championship’s inauguration, instead taking up a reserve driver role at Nissan.

Calendar
The official calendar was released on 16 October 2025. The following ePrix are contracted to form the 2025–26 Formula E World Championship, which will be the longest season in championship history, consisting of a record 17 races.

Round E-Prix Country Circuit Date
1 São Paulo ePrix Brazil São Paulo Street Circuit 6 December 2025
2 Mexico City ePrix Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 10 January 2026
3 Miami ePrix United States Miami International Autodrome 31 January 2026
4 Jeddah ePrix Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit 13 February 2026
5 Jeddah ePrix  Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit 14 February 2026
6 Madrid ePrix Spain Circuito del Jarama 21 March 2026
7 Berlin ePrix Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit 2 May 2026
8 Berlin ePrix   Germany   Tempelhof Airport Street3 May 2026
9 Monaco ePrix Monaco Circuit de Monaco 16 May 2026
10 Monaco ePrix Monaco Circuit de Monaco 17 May 2026
11 Sanya ePrix China Haitang Bay Circuit 20 June 2026
12 Shanghai ePrix Shanghai International Circuit 4 July 2026
13 Shanghai ePrix    Shanghai International Circuit 5 July 2026
14 Tokyo ePrix Japan Tokyo Street Circuit 25 July 2026
15 Tokyo ePrix    Japan  Tokyo Street Circuit  26 July 2026
16 London ePrix United Kingdom ExCeL London Circuit 15 August 2026
17 London ePrix  United Kingdom  ExCeL  London 16 August 2026

Location changes
The Miami ePrix once again changed its venue: After just a single year of running on the Homestead-Miami Speedway, the race switched to the Miami International Autodrome, the venue which also hosts Formula One’s Miami Grand Prix.
Formula E will make its racing debut at Circuito del Jarama, with the track holding the inaugural Madrid ePrix after previously hosting season eleven’s pre-season test when the Circuit Ricardo Tormo was unavailable due to flooding in the area.
The Sanya ePrix will return to the calendar for the first time in seven years, while the Jakarta ePrix was dropped

The format used in qualifying has been slightly altered, with the two group stage sessions shortened from twelve to ten minutes each. The requirement for every driver to set a laptime in the first half of group qualifying has also been removed.

Races including a mandatory pit boost stop now require drivers to only take attack mode once instead of twice.


Pre-season
After the pre-season test for the 2024–25 season had to be relocated to Circuito del Jarama due to flooding in Valencia, Formula E returned to Circuit Ricardo Tormo ahead of the 2025–26 season, with six sessions held on 27–30 October. Mahindra’s Edoardo Mortara posted the fastest time of the test in the penultimate session, leading Nissan’s defending champion Oliver Rowland, DS Penske’s new signing Taylor Barnard and the second Nissan of Norman Nato, with the top four separated by less than a hundreth of a second and the whole field less than 0.9 seconds apart. The test once again featured a mock race which was also used to test yellow flag and red flag procedures during pit boost stops and was won by Porsche’s Nico Müller. Like in the season before, the official pre-season test was followed by an all-female test, this time consisting of two separate sessions. F1 Academy driver Chloe Chambers posted the fastest time for Mahindra, ahead of Abbi Pulling’s Nissan.

Opening rounds
Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein was fastest in qualifying for the season-opening São Paulo ePrix, but a penalty demoted him to fourth on the grid and allowed Andretti’s Jake Dennis to start the race first. The two Nissan drivers collided on lap 17, with Nato suffering a puncture. Citroën’s Nick Cassidy rose through the field after taking his second attack mode. A clash between Mortara and Lola’s Lucas di Grassi on lap 22 caused a safety car, with all leaders bar Dennis already into their second attack mode. That allowed him to take attack mode and the lead once racing resumed, but Cupra Kiro’s Pepe Martí then misjudged a full course yellow thrown for Jaguar’s Mitch Evans. He heavily collided with two other cars, flew into the air and caused a red flag. Dennis led the one-lap resumption, winning ahead of Rowland and Cassidy.

Pole position for the Mexico City ePrix went to Envision’s Sébastien Buemi. Buemi went straight on at the opening corner and dropped to the back, handing the lead to Barnard before Wehrlein took over at the front after being the first to activate attack mode. Dennis ran out of energy at the end of the race, while Cassidy held on to win Formula E’s 150th race and claim the championship lead.

Müller secured his maiden Formula E pole position in the series’ inaugural qualifying session around the Miami International Autodrome. Rain ahead of the race saw the field start behind the safety car, with a standing start afterwards. Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich was the first to take attack mode, using it to claim the lead as the top seven broke away from the rest of the field. Müller and Drugovich traded first place, before Da Costa and Evans also joined the fight. The Jaguar drivers ran side by side entering lap 24, with Evans moving into second behind Müller. Da Costa was then removed from contention when Drugovich outbraked himself and ran into his back on lap 26. Evans took the lead from Müller holding on throughout the final round of attack modes to secure a record-breaking fifteenth Formula E win. Wehrlein took third to close up to two points behind Cassidy in the standings