Why Jaguar's tie-up with Envision goes beyond the Formula E arena

Jaguar will supply Envision with powertrains for Formula E's Gen3 regulations commencing in 2023, a development that both hope will allow them to replicate the success of Mercedes and Venturi's current agreement. But for both British brands, the tie-up has a wider significance beyond electric-powered single-seaters

Jake Boxall-Legge Feb 8, 2022, 10:06 AM

Upd: Feb 8, 2022, 10:13 AM

It was an inevitability that the Envision team would have to find a new Formula E powertrain supplier for the upcoming Gen3 regulations. It was perhaps also inevitable that the British team, formerly the Virgin squad, would elect to tie up with Jaguar following the climax of its four-year partnership with Audi.

Audi, which departed Formula E at the end of last season as a works entity, elected to keep supplying Envision with its powertrains for one more year; after all, the hardware was all homologated last year, so the Volkswagen AG subsidiary wasn't going to be frittering away money on development. Instead, the only real outlay for the 2021-22 season was to build and supply the hardware, something Envision was already paying for. But that's not going to continue into the third-generation formula of cars expected next year.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.