The ABB FIA Formula E Championship provides a test-bed – an Apollo program-like breeding ground – for the world’s leading automotive manufacturers to develop their electric vehicle platforms to make them more intelligent and go further on every charge, through sporting competition of the highest level. Three years after Mahindra’s acquisition of Pininfarina, Automobili Pininfarina was formed. “As leader of the Formula E team, one of my biggest priorities now is the Race to Road programme,” said Gill. Heidfeld’s Formula 1 career spanned more than a decade, and in Formula E he was a regular on the podium for Mahindra. Mahindra’s ‘Race to Road’ philosophy goes beyond any one project, collaborating on other EV production and development with its own in-house companies Mahindra Electric and Mahindra Research Valley. Watch Mahindra Blueprints Series 3 and find out how the team’s competition in Formula E is driving battery-electric automotive technology.

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