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    Formula E 600kW mid-race charging is finally ready, for real this time, we swear

    After years of waiting and many false starts, Formula E is finally going to debut its mid-race charging system, which will give cars a quick boost of energy charging at a rate much faster than current road cars can.

    For years now, we’ve been hearing about FIA plans to introduce charging stops to electric racing.

    In gas car racing, some series allow mid-race fueling and some don’t. The World Endurance Championship, which runs the 24 Hours of Le Mans, obviously needs to fill up several times during the race. But Formula 1, which hosts shorter races, eliminated mid-race fueling in 2010.

    Plans to bring mid-race charging to Formula E started in 2021, when the FIA started kicking around plans for an Electric GT racing series with 700kW charging.

    But the FIA already had one electric racing series, Formula E, which had debuted in 2014. At the time, each…

    Read the full article originally published at electrek.co.

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