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Author:  Gabriel [ Wed May 24, 2017 8:17 pm ]
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Santiago?

I might go to that.

Author:  mclaren2008 [ Fri Jun 09, 2017 1:55 pm ]
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This has to be one of the strangest things I've ever seen at a race track. Reminds me of TrackMania :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

https://www.facebook.com/fiaformulae/vi ... 565892219/

Author:  Woodski [ Fri Jun 09, 2017 4:43 pm ]
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It's not that weird though?

Author:  racer612008 [ Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:14 pm ]
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2017/2018 preliminary schedule has been released.
http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2017 ... -revealed/

12/02/2017 - Hong Kong
12/03/2017 - Hong Kong
01/13/2018 - Marrakesh
02/02/2018 - Santiago
03/02/2018 - Mexico City
03/17/2018 - Sao Paulo (date to be confirmed)
04/14/2018 - Rome
05/19/2018 - TBA / Germany (venue to be confirmed)
06/09/2018 - TBA (venue to be confirmed)
07/07/2018 - New York City (date to be confirmed)
07/08/2018 - New York City (date to be confirmed)
07/28/2018 - Montreal
07/29/2018 - Montreal

Author:  Coldtyre [ Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:25 pm ]
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YYYY-MM-DD for crying out loud (Not against you racer612008, but against the whole world, and that one guy in my current project who names computer files using DD-MM-YYYY like a freacking caveman with a brain disease).

Author:  SecretAgentHarvick [ Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:32 pm ]
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Coldtyre wrote:
YYYY-MM-DD for crying out loud (Not against you racer612008, but against the whole world, and that one guy in my current project who names computer files using DD-MM-YYYY like a freacking caveman with a brain disease).


I get confused as all get out when that format is used, but I don't whine about it. Lol. racer612008 uses the format that I'm accustomed to.

Author:  Woodski [ Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:30 pm ]
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MM-DD-YYYY pls.

Least amount of possible numbers to most.

Author:  Coldtyre [ Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:12 am ]
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That is the worst argument in favour of that date system that I've ever heard, but to each their own. There's an official international format to avoid confusion in formal settings, and in everyday life we just drunkenly specify day and month in any order or talk in weekdays anyway.

Author:  electrodevo [ Thu Jun 22, 2017 1:41 pm ]
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Woodski wrote:
MM-DD-YYYY pls.
Least amount of possible numbers to most.


Main thing with YYYY-MM-DD is that it is the ISO 8601 standard. Thus it's the only format that you can enter into computers and pretty much guarantee that it is understood universally.

Most of Europe and the rest of the world use a form of DD-MM-YYYY typically. Of course, within this "most of the world", there's also lots of little variations such as using dashes, slashes, or periods between the numbers, just to make things non-trivial for us programmers. :p

Main thing to realize is that something like "12/02/2017" could be interpreted as Februrary 12th by most countries, not December 2nd as the Americans would. I've kind of defaulted to ISO date shorthand when communicating internationally just to make it obvious what date is what.

Author:  racer612008 [ Tue Jul 11, 2017 3:27 pm ]
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BMW to partner with Andretti Autosport as a official manufacturer at the start of next season.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/BMWMotorsport/status/884759646073966592[/tweet]

Author:  racer612008 [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:02 am ]
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Porsche confirmed


and as of a few days ago, Mercedes confirmed

Author:  siggy [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:54 am ]
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If they can improve the top speed with more batteries to over 300 km/h, then it will become F1 eventually.

Author:  aerogi [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:45 pm ]
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they should be more powerful, have slick tyres. And race on wider tracks.

Author:  deggis [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:38 pm ]
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siggy wrote:
If they can improve the top speed with more batteries to over 300 km/h, then it will become F1 eventually.

That's obviously not happening very quickly without much more open development.

And I'm not sure the manufacturers want that since the big reason for joining FE is how at this point FE is relatively cheap (I saw Renault's budget somewhere, <25M or something) with excellent marketing ROI.

Author:  mclaren2008 [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:42 pm ]
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They need more races

Author:  codename_47 [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:46 pm ]
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Everyone is confusing what Formula E is now, with what these manufacturers are going to push it towards in the future

Porsche didn't come in half heartedly, they bought up a battery manufacturing company in advance of their arrival, in the future pretty much everything that isn't the chassis is going to be developed by the teams

The speeds will increase, the life of the batteries will increase.
We just have to be patient.

Author:  cookie [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:26 pm ]
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Indeed, it will get faster every year and battery life will improve. Much more fascinating to follow this development than the technology in F1 imo. Not sure why so many people want them to race on normal tracks, they're not getting the point of this series. When they become faster they might visit some traditional circuits eventually, but the core will be city centers because for now that is what electric cars are for. When they want to market the longevity of the battery life in a few years (make that 10 years) they'll probably seek out some longer tracks with more elevation. See, you can now make road trips with electric cars will be the commercial message then

Author:  deggis [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:07 pm ]
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cookie wrote:
Not sure why so many people want them to race on normal tracks, they're not getting the point of this series. When they become faster they might visit some traditional circuits eventually, but the core will be city centers because for now that is what electric cars are for.

That reads like a press release... This has more to do with just trying to attact new audiences (young and people living in cities), but the selection of circuits has more to do with the current and near future cars simply being too slow for normal circuits. They don't even use normal configurations of the street circuits when available for the same reason. For permanent circuits the cars don't need to be F1-fast, but roughly as fast as the next fastest single-seater categories.

Author:  codename_47 [ Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:32 pm ]
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cookie wrote:
Indeed, it will get faster every year and battery life will improve. Much more fascinating to follow this development than the technology in F1 imo. Not sure why so many people want them to race on normal tracks, they're not getting the point of this series. When they become faster they might visit some traditional circuits eventually, but the core will be city centers because for now that is what electric cars are for. When they want to market the longevity of the battery life in a few years (make that 10 years) they'll probably seek out some longer tracks with more elevation. See, you can now make road trips with electric cars will be the commercial message then


They'll probably still go to shorter layouts on existing racetracks even if they did visit established circuits

Electric racing is all about torque as you put the throttle down and less about top speed atm
There'd be no point them going to spa and being on full throttle from La Source through eau rouge and up through the kemmel straight for 40 seconds, they'd probably be toasting their batteries.

Author:  Coldtyre [ Sat Jul 29, 2017 9:01 am ]
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There will be massive investùent in this series, because the good'old argument "top racing series allow technology to be developped for future use in road cars", no longer applicable to F1 except by poorly informed blindfolded fans in lack of pro-F1 arguments, actually applies here.

Batteries that don't overheat, and deliver max power over longer stints, is a perfect R&D playground to increase autonomy, performance and reliability of electric road cars.

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