1.82 s to 60 on Formula E's claim, which its CEO says the FIA timed. All-wheel drive only when the rules allow it, and no showroom will sell you one.
Photo: TTTNIS, CC0, Japan Mobility Show 2025, cut out and placed on a dark background by us.
Formula E and the FIA claim the Gen3 Evo reaches 60 mph in 1.82 seconds claimed and 100 km/h in 1.86 s claimed, which they call 30% quicker than a current F1 car (Formula E). CEO Jeff Dodds said it was done on track at Misano and "really timed by the FIA" (Engadget), but no driver, date, surface or rollout rule was published. The quoted top speed is 200 mph claimed (Formula E); the original Gen3's best race speed was 172 mph reported (The Race).
Nobody has timed one over a quarter mile, so our race uses 9.00 s at 150 mph estimate, our own figure. It's a spec race car, raced by 11 teams in 2024-25 and 10 in 2025-26, never sold, and it ran its last race in London on August 16, 2026.
Every team races the same chassis from Spark Racing Technology, the same WAE battery and the same front motor kit from Atieva, Lucid's engineering arm. Manufacturers such as Porsche, Jaguar and Nissan build only the rear powertrain, and those parts were homologated afresh for the Evo (Formula E). There is no price list and no road version; teams ordered new cars rather than converting old ones (Racer).
It was the mid-life update of the Gen3, revealed in Monaco on April 25, 2024. Dodds remembered seeing the plan and asking: "Why isn't this GEN4?" (Racer). It raced for two seasons, 33 races by our count derived.
Photo: Byxelized, CC BY-SA 4.0, Valencia test, October 2025, cut out by us; our edit is shared under the same license.
Every figure carries its label. claimed means Formula E, the FIA or a team said it, without a published timed run. recorded means timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system; none has been published for this car. verified means an official body. reported is press we couldn't trace to a primary source. derived is our math. estimate is modeled for our race because no published figure exists. Here's how we label numbers.
Each bar fills at the real speed of that 0-60 time. Cars with a race lane use the race's lineup figures. The two extra Formula E bars are Formula E's own numbers: the Gen3 Evo without front-wheel drive, and the original Gen3. Dodge's 1.66 s subtracts the first foot of rollout; Formula E hasn't said how it timed its car.
Engadget reported that the series had already hit its benchmarks "on track in Misano, Italy," before the reveal, and Dodds told it: "It's not simulated, it's real" (Engadget). That's all that has been published. No driver, date, surface, timing gear or rollout convention, and Dodds added that "slight tweaks" were still to come, though he expected the race car to stay under two seconds. We searched for a famous demo against a McLaren 720S and found no record of one; the public showings were David Coulthard's laps of Monaco two days after the reveal and an animated comparison video.
The gain comes from the front axle. Formula E consultant Dieter Gass said the car "can accelerate below two seconds from 0 to 60 miles per hour and without front wheel drive you're above 2.5 seconds" (The Race). One number doesn't fit: seven weeks earlier, Formula E's 400 kW, all-wheel-drive GENBETA test car set a 0-100 km/h benchmark of 2.49 s (Formula E). Neither release says how it was timed, so we can't reconcile the two.
Both slides are real photos of a Gen3 Evo, in team colors, from Wikimedia Commons. None are Formula E or team press photos.
Tap a marker. Figures are Formula E claims unless noted. Photo: Byxelized, CC BY-SA 4.0, cut out by us.
An upper element returned and the front wheels are more covered, for lower drag. Spark also made the wing sturdier after failed wings slid under cars in 2023 and 2024 crashes (The Race).
A spec front unit from Atieva, rated at 350 kW but used on the original Gen3 only to harvest up to 250 kW. On the Evo it also drives the front wheels, supplying 50 kW when all-wheel drive is allowed (Wikipedia, citing The Race).
Drivers trigger Attack Mode by driving over an off-line activation loop. It unlocks 350 kW and all-wheel drive. In season 12 they got one activation per Pit Boost race (Formula E).
Built by WAE, about 284 kg, with 38.5 kWh usable in a race (Wikipedia). It takes Pit Boost's 600 kW charge: 3.85 kWh in 30 seconds.
The rear motor, inverter and gearbox, ahead of the rear axle, are the manufacturer's own: 300 kW in race mode, 350 kW in qualifying and Attack Mode (Wikipedia).
Treaded Hankook iON tires on every corner. The rear motor recovers up to 350 kW under braking, and the Gen3 was launched without a conventional rear braking system; small emergency rear discs were added in January 2023 after braking incidents in testing (Motorsport.com).
A Gen3 Evo never has all its hardware working at once. Race mode is rear-wheel drive at 300 kW. Qualifying duels, race starts and Attack Mode add the front motor and go to 350 kW, which is where the 1.82 s claim lives. Under braking, both motors harvest up to 600 kW, and at double-header races every car must stop for Pit Boost, a 30-second, 600 kW charge in a 34-second stop, introduced at Jeddah in February 2025 (Formula E).
Because nobody has run one. Formula E races on street circuits, publishes no standing-start times beyond 0-60 and 0-100 km/h, and no tester has had a Gen3 Evo on a drag strip. Our race gives it 9.00 s at 150 mph estimate, which ties it with the Ferrari F80 and McLaren W1 and puts it 10th of 21.
What is published: 859 kg with the driver reported (Racer), and 350 kW with all-wheel drive in qualifying and Attack Mode against 300 kW, rear drive only, in race mode reported (Wikipedia, citing The Race). In race mode it would be noticeably slower off the line: Formula E's Dieter Gass put 0-60 without front drive above 2.5 s claimed (The Race). Until someone times one, treat 9.00 s as a placeholder.
The car it replaced and the car replacing it. Figures are Formula E and FIA claims unless noted.
Formula E's first car with front and rear motors, used for two seasons.
The front motor only harvested energy. Weight with driver from Wikipedia; 0-60 from Formula E's comparison video.
The same powertrain limits, plus part-time all-wheel drive, grippier tires and new bodywork.
Weight with driver reported by Racer. 33 races, season 11 and season 12.
Unveiled November 5, 2025, first run in public at Paul Ricard on April 21, 2026.
From the FIA. The Andretti team quotes 1.8 s to 60, no quicker on paper than the Evo (Andretti).
Two seasons, two champions, and a successor already testing. Scroll sideways.
An unlocked 400 kW Gen3 runs 0-100 km/h in 2.49 s with Reem Al Aboud driving claimed.
Shown at Prince Albert II's car collection with the 1.82 s claim.
The ex-F1 driver gives it its first public run on the Monaco streets.
All 22 cars run for the first time in public.
Mitch Evans wins the first Gen3 Evo race, in São Paulo, from the back of the grid.
The first mandatory 600 kW charging stop, at Jeddah.
Nissan's Oliver Rowland clinches 2024-25 in Berlin with two races to go.
600 kW, permanent all-wheel drive, from December 2026.
Jake Dennis wins in São Paulo.
Its public launch runs at Circuit Paul Ricard.
Pascal Wehrlein takes a second title in London by five points, scoring none in the finale.
Teams reveal GEN4 cars; testing at Jarama runs November 16 to 20.
Reaction split four ways. These are opinions, quoted with links.
"It's not simulated, it's real."Jeff Dodds, Formula E CEO, Engadget
He added that the 1.82 s was "really timed by the FIA at that speed."
"Formula E previously consistently stated, erroneously as it turned out, that the Gen3 car would regularly reach 200mph."Sam Smith, The Race
The same piece called the Evo "just an interim step" before GEN4.
"…the performance of the car in general is a big step forward."Oliver Rowland, Nissan, The Race
He tested it before it raced, then won the first Gen3 Evo title.
"It feels a bit more like Formula E on steroids."Max Verstappen on the 2026 F1 cars, ESPN
He meant it as a complaint about F1's new energy rules. More on our F1 car profile.
The consensus: the Evo fixed what drivers hated about the original Gen3, mainly traction, and made Attack Mode worth using. The FIA's Pablo Martino said: "The fundamental part was the four-wheel drive mode, but I think it was a package of improvements too" (The Race). The arguments are about marketing: a 0-60 claim with no published method, a 200 mph top speed the cars don't reach, and an F1 comparison made on Formula E's own F1 number.
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The front motor may drive only in qualifying duels, at race starts and in Attack Mode. The rest of the race is rear-wheel drive.
Peak power stayed at 350 kW. In Attack Mode the front axle supplies 50 kW of it, so the gain is traction, not output.
Formula E's own numbers, 1.82 s with it and "above 2.5 seconds" without, put the front axle's value at about 0.7 s to 60 derived.
The Race reported that the original Gen3's fastest race speed was 172 mph, at Portland in June 2023.
Formula E says regenerative braking supplies nearly 50% of the energy a car uses in a race.
Pit Boost adds 3.85 kWh in 30 seconds. Each team has one charger, so two cars can't stop together.
The Hankook tires are treaded all-weather tires. Formula E says variations of them have gone on road cars.
The 400 kW GENBETA's 2.49 s to 100 km/h came seven weeks before the 350 kW Evo's 1.86 s claim. Neither method is published.
GEN4 has 600 kW in Attack Mode, but the Andretti team quotes its 0-60 as 1.8 s claimed, level with the Evo's claim.
In our quarter-mile model the Gen3 Evo finishes 10th of 21 on its 9.00 s estimate. The Ferrari F80 and McLaren W1 are estimated at 9.00 s too, so the three share a time. The car just quicker and the car just slower:
Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 1708.91 s at 151 mph recorded. Read the profile
Ferrari F809.00 s at 157 mph estimate. Read the profile
Card photos: Ferrari F80 by Calreyn88, CC BY-SA 4.0, edited.
Formula E and the FIA claim 1.82 seconds for the Gen3 Evo, and 1.86 seconds to 100 km/h. Formula E's CEO says the run was done on track at Misano and timed by the FIA, but Formula E has not published the driver, date, surface or whether rollout was subtracted. The car only gets all-wheel drive at race starts, in qualifying duels and in Attack Mode; Formula E's Dieter Gass said it takes more than 2.5 seconds without front-wheel drive.
Off the line, on Formula E's numbers, yes: it claims the Gen3 Evo is 30 percent quicker to 60 mph than a current F1 car, which Formula E puts at 2.6 seconds. Over a lap, no. An F1 car has far more power and downforce, and the fastest official F1 speed-trap reading of 2026 was 358.2 km/h, against the Gen3 Evo's claimed top speed of 322 km/h.
Formula E quotes 200 mph (322 km/h) for the Gen3 Evo. That is a theoretical figure. The Race reported that the original Gen3 never got near it in a race, peaking at 172 mph at Portland in 2023, and suggested 180 to 185 mph might be achievable for the Evo.
The Gen3 Evo is limited to 350 kW, about 470 hp, in qualifying and Attack Mode, and 300 kW, about 400 hp, in race mode. In Attack Mode, 50 kW of the 350 comes from the front motor. Under braking the two motors can recover up to 600 kW. With the driver it weighs 859 kg, according to Racer.
No. The Gen3 Evo is a spec racing car, raced by 11 Formula E teams in 2024-25 and 10 in 2025-26. Spark Racing Technology makes the chassis, WAE the battery and Lucid's Atieva the front motor, while manufacturers develop the rear powertrain. It isn't sold to the public, has no price list and isn't road legal.
GEN4, unveiled by the FIA and Formula E on November 5, 2025. It has 450 kW in race mode, 600 kW in Attack Mode, permanent all-wheel drive and 700 kW of regeneration, and it races on Bridgestone tires. It debuts at the Jeddah season opener on December 18 and 19, 2026. The Gen3 Evo's last races were in London on August 15 and 16, 2026.
Labels. Claimed: Formula E, the FIA or a team said it, without a published timed run. Recorded: timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system. No such run has been published for this car, so the 1.82 s, which Formula E's CEO says the FIA timed, stays claimed; the Demon's quarter in the chart is recorded on Dodge's own pass. Verified: an official body, such as an FIA speed-trap reading. Reported: press reporting we couldn't trace to a primary source. Derived: our math. Estimate: modeled for our race because no published figure exists. Both are explained in the methodology guide. Race figures come from the lineup in our quarter-mile simulator, which uses Formula E's 0-60 claim and our own quarter-mile estimate. Sources disagree in places: Racer described the 0-60 gain over the Gen3 as about 0.2 s and the lap gain as about 0.2 s, where Formula E says nearly a full second and about 2 s at Monaco; we use Formula E's figures. Motor efficiency is quoted as over 90% and over 95% in different Formula E materials, so we left it out. A Porsche-focused report gives 862 kg; we use Racer's 859 kg.
Images. Hero and rear view: TTTNIS (rear), CC0, cut out by us, with the show stand removed. Side view: Byxelized, and Citroën photo: Byxelized, both CC BY-SA 4.0, cut out or cropped by us; our edits are shared under the same license. All of these are real photos of Gen3 Evo race cars, not Formula E or team press photos. Team colors and sponsor names are as raced. The two neighbor-card thumbnails show other cars: the Ferrari F80 is a cutout of a real photo, credited under the cards, and the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is our own generated illustration. Video thumbnails come from YouTube.
