Formula E Now Has A Mercedes

It’s official! Mercedes will be starting a fresh chapter in its long and successful racing history, entering Season 6 of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. The Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team will draw on the combined experience and technical know-how of its motorsport family and successful motor racing pedigree.

ON Semiconductor is a proud supplier of Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E and looks forward to working with the team in developing next-generation electric powertrain innovations for cutting-edge performance and efficiency. The company’s technology is already utilized in the energy recovery pack that controls ignition and injection drivers of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport race car, which has won five consecutive FIA Formula One™ World Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships.

Powertrain systems within both a Formula 1™ and Formula E vehicle not only possess an increased number of power semiconductors, these semiconductors must meet extremely demanding performance and efficiency requirements, while withstanding the harshest of automotive environments.

In Formula E, as with the future of the automobile, vehicle electrification will be a key technology to emission free transportation. ON Semiconductor has all the core technologies for vehicle electrification which improves efficiency in the vehicle powertrain resulting in safer and better performing EV/HEV automobiles and we look forward in applying that technology in the development of the Mercedes-Benz EQ Silver Arrow 01.