I believe it would have been a better decision to let both fully electric cars as well as hybrid cars compete in the series. This would result in some more variety as there aren't many fully electric cars on the market at the moment. Then more manufacturers could take part to demonstrate and develop their hybrid technology.
That's an awful idea. There's a huge difference between electric motors and an IC unit backed up with electric motors. All you'd have is everyone running jumped up petrol hybrids, which is already happening - see LMP1 - and even if you don't quite have the budget for that, you can still develop your own hybrid of sorts to compete in the VLN or similar. You couldn't further encourage something that's already got a fairly strong hold on the motorsport world already.
It is great. It should actually show how far electric car technology has come, which is exactly what FE fails to deliver on - it's a fantastic race series, but it manages to promote all of electric motoring's weakest points.
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Everyone forgets that electric cars dominated Pikes Peak last year, and probably will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Maybe it's less about forgetting and more about not caring; the more motorsport tries to sort itself out for the future, the more deluded fans seem to creep out from under the rocks to rubbish everything new. Apparently the new ideal for the future is noisy, fuel-heavy lumps with a million cylinders that have the structural integrity of a crisp packet to ensure that drivers can always be seriously injured, because otherwise they're "wimping out".
We need more series to stop playing to the fancies of fools who have their heads buried in the sand. Promoting the best side of alternative fuel sources through motorsport is a must, and this seems like a great series to do such a thing.
