Elon Musk wants to put electric vehicles on the biggest stage of motorsports.
Musk was present in the paddock of Formula One’s - LSXMA Miami Grand Prix over the weekend alongside other notable personalities like fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, actor Tom Cruise, and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams.
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And the Tesla (TSLA) owner didn’t just come for the spectacle.
In response to ESPN F1’s tweet showing Musk alongside Red Bull Racing Principal Christian Horner, Musk said he proposed an F1 race that would feature electric vehicles competing with gas or hybrid-powered vehicles.
There is a racing league that has electric vehicles, that being Formula E, which Alpha Tauri driver Nyck de Vries won in 2021. But Formula E cars have yet to show that they can match the top speeds of their gas-powered counterparts in Formula One.
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Formula One vehicles average around 200-220 mph during long straight lines of race circuits, and have topped at around 231 mph. Formula E cars top at around 175 mph.
Musk’s proposal is intriguing as Tesla has led the charge in the development of the electric vehicle industry. The Tesla Model S Plaid is supposedly able to go up to 200 mph, and has even broken this number on same cases.
Four-time Formula One Champion Sebastian Vettel, who retired after last season, released a video in March test driving the Tesla Model S Plaid and wrote in the video's description that he achieved speeds of 350 kph or about 217 mph.
However, there’s much more to top speed that allows Formula One cars to be speedy on the race track like braking systems that allow cars to maneuver through tight corners.
But those technicalities are probably what Musk discussed with Horner and dozens of motorsport experts and engineers present in Miami over the weekend. Whether or not Musk’s proposal comes true remains to be seen, and probably will have to wait years for more development in the electric car space and regulations in the world’s premier motorsport league.
