Formula E’s upcoming season is making a sharp turn toward big-league motorsport. New venues, faster cars, and a revised race format that looks a lot like what F1’s been doing for years.
The FIA released the Season 13 calendar today, adding Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Brands Hatch in Kent, and Zandvoort in Amsterdam. That gives Formula E two US weekends for the first time since the inaugural 2014 season.
The new “Unleashed” format adds a 30-minute sprint race before the main event — similar to F1’s sprint weekends. The key difference: no mandatory pit boost stop in the sprint, letting drivers flat-out push the new Gen4 cars without worrying about battery management.
And those Gen4 cars are a proper step up. Top speed hits 208mph (335kph), they’re physically larger than Gen3, and attack mode now delivers 600kW — a 71% boost over the previous generation.
Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds didn’t downplay the ambition, telling Motorsport that “Gen4 gets us right on the heels of F1, and Gen5 is probably faster.” The series is also moving away from smaller street circuits toward tracks that can actually handle the higher speeds.
Season 13 kicks off in December.
