Formula E Gen2 (Spark SRT05e)

History

Formula E grew up with the Gen2 (2018): the Spark Racing Technology-built SRT05e — the McLaren Applied battery's full-race capacity (the mid-race car-swap era ended, the credibility threshold the championship needed), the spec chassis-and-battery platform under open powertrain development (the manufacturer era's rear-end freedoms — the Mercedes, Porsche, Jaguar, and Nissan programmes' motor-and-inverter wars), and the halo-generation batmobile bodywork (the wheel-covered silhouette that gave the series its own visual identity) — racing the 2018-19 through 2021-22 seasons' street calendars: the manufacturer-depth grids (the championship's peak factory entry), the title fights the era's parity wrote, and the Gen3 handover (2023) that retired the fleet into the market's hands.

The spec-plus-powertrain structure frames the type: the Spark-built commonality (chassis, battery, and aero identical), the powertrain identity per manufacturer (the rear-end packages the era's real engineering), and the season-spec evolutions the homologation cycles tracked.

The retirement-era custody is the new chapter: the ex-works fleet's collector flow (the manufacturer-programme provenance pricing the notable chassis), the battery-custody question (the high-voltage apparatus' specialist life the type's defining ownership fact), and the demonstration-and-museum careers the retired grid runs.

The present is EV-racer grammar: high-voltage safety law, manufacturer-provenance scholarship, and the coming-of-age story the era carries.

Palmarès

Four seasons of the championship's manufacturer peak — the 2018-22 title fights and the street-calendar wins across the factory programmes — the coming-of-age ledger.