Jaguar's New Formula E Car Wears the Type 01's Blue and Has Up to 805 HP
The reigning Teams' champion pairs a Type 01 paint color with all-wheel drive, Jaguar-designed brake-by-wire, and two former champions ahead of Formula E's COTA debut.
Jaguar's Formula E car for the series' new GEN4 era will race in the same blue that buyers can order on the brand's $130,500 Type 01 electric GT. Jaguar TCS Racing, the reigning Teams' World Champion, revealed the I-Type 08 at its Knightsbridge showroom in London on November 10, in a livery based on French Ultramarine Blue, a Type 01 paint option.
The color choice is deliberate. Jaguar is using its race team to sell its reinvented, electric-only brand before the road car arrives: the leaper badge sits on the same strikethrough graphic used on the Type 01, and the company says the I-Type 08 will feed what it calls continuous technology updates for the GT and its future road cars.
What GEN4 changes
The performance jump is large. Jaguar quotes up to 600 kW (about 805 hp) from a 350-kW rear and a 250-kW front powertrain, permanent active all-wheel drive, and 700 kW of regenerative braking. That's up to 71% more power and 43% more battery capacity than the previous generation, according to the team, which expects lap times to fall by as much as 10 seconds compared with GEN3.
The 600-kW number is a peak, though. As we covered in Nissan driver Zane Maloney's take on GEN4 all-wheel drive, published specs put race trim at 450 kW, with full output available only temporarily in Attack Mode.
For Jaguar, the bigger change is how much of the car it now builds itself. Under GEN4 rules, the team designs the motor, inverter, gearbox, rear suspension, active rear differential, cooling system, drive shafts, wiring, and the software that controls them. Front and rear brake-by-wire and the DC/DC converter are now Jaguar designs too, and drivers can adjust the front and rear differentials from the cockpit, corner by corner.
Two champions and a new race format
The driver lineup is new as well. António Félix da Costa (#13) won the Season 6 title; Stoffel Vandoorne (#5) won Season 8 and spent last year as Jaguar's test and reserve driver, putting much of the I-Type 08's development mileage on it. The pair have 18 Formula E wins between them. Vandoorne says GEN4 is "probably going to be the biggest change in Formula E's history."
Double-header weekends also get a second race. Alongside the regular 40-minute E-Prix with Pit Boost and Attack Mode, a 25-minute sprint called Formula E Unleashed will run in high-downforce trim, with Attack Mode but no Pit Boost.
Why Austin matters
The season opens in Jeddah on December 18–19, and the series reaches the US early. Formula E makes its debut at Circuit of the Americas in Austin on February 6, 2027, followed by Miami on February 20, according to the provisional calendar. That puts two American races on the schedule in the same year Jaguar plans to open Type 01 orders, which it has said will happen in early 2027.
Jaguar has results to lean on. The team counts 26 wins and 36 further podiums, which it says make it the most successful team in Formula E history, and it won the Teams' title in 2024 and 2026. Jaguar says it has raced every generation of the series.
The I-Type 08 runs for the first time in public at the official pre-season test in Madrid, November 16–20. Jaguar hasn't said which pieces of its GEN4 hardware or software will reach the Type 01, or when. The car's road-going sibling still has open questions of its own.
