BERLIN – Nissan e.dams takes its Formula E challenge to Germany this week with the electric street racing championship stages its penultimate European round at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport.
Nissan heads to German capital following its best Formula E result to date in Monaco on May 11 where Oliver Rowland earned his third pole position of the season and finished on the podium in second place. Sebastien Buemi backed that up with a fifth-place finish.
As the market leader for electric vehicles in Europe, Nissan is using Formula E to demonstrate the power and performance of its electric vehicle technology – a key part of the company's Nissan Intelligent Mobility vision.
The Nissan LEAF was the best-selling electric car in Europe in 2018. The recently unveiled Nissan LEAF e+, with increased range and power, is now available for order in the region.
Last October Nissan announced that the LEAF had prequalified as a power station in Germany. This is another step forward in establishing Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology using the unique CHAdeMO quick charging standard used by Nissan for the LEAF. It is also a great example of how Nissan is thinking beyond electric mobility to make peoples' lives better under Nissan Intelligent Mobility.
The Berlin race is a unique race in the championship with the 2.225km, 10-turn circuit laid out on the former taxi-ways of Tempelhof Airport – one of Berlin's former main airports which closed in 2008.
Sebastien Buemi has had great success in Formula E in Germany in the past. He has twice won here – once at the Karl-Marx-Allee Circuit where the event was staged in 2016 - and again in 2017 when he won the second race of a double-header weekend at the Tempelhof circuit.
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Fast Facts
Driver profiles
Sebastien Buemi - https://www.nismo.com/driver/sebastien-buemi/
Oliver Rowland - https://www.nismo.com/driver/oliver-rowland/
Berlin E-Prix track
Length: 2.225km
Turns: 10
Timetable
Friday, May 24
15:30 p.m.: Practice 1
18:00 p.m.: Practice 2
Saturday, May 25
8:45 a.m.: Qualifying
9:30 p.m.: Super Pole
13:04 p.m.: Race
TV details
https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/watch/ways-to-watch
#FANBOOST
The Nissan e.dams team has been popular in the “Fanboost” vote. Fans of the team can help its drivers access an extra boost of energy during each race by tweeting using the hashtags #FANBOOST and #SebastienBuemi or #OliverRowland. They can also vote by visiting nismo.com/fanboost/seb or nismo.com/fanboost/oliver.
Contact
Anna Teslik
Global motorsports communications manager
Phone: +33 7 7614 7286
ATeslik@nissan-europe.com
Paul Ryan
Global motorsports press officer
Phone: +1 678 644 0404
paul@nismosupport.com
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