{"id":14595,"date":"2024-05-25T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/jeff-dodds-the-formula-e-boss-planning-a-move-into-pole-position\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T13:37:49","slug":"jeff-dodds-the-formula-e-boss-planning-a-move-into-pole-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/jeff-dodds-the-formula-e-boss-planning-a-move-into-pole-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Dodds: the Formula E boss planning a move into pole position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrolheads are quick to scorn the idea of electric car racing, but the series\u2019 chief executive is sure that time, technology \u2013 and even geography \u2013 are on his side<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Dodds has been a fan of Formula One \u201call my life\u201d, he says. That is probably a good thing because, as chief executive of electric racing series Formula E, he must find the comparison with its fossil-fuelled cousin is constant.<\/p>\n<p>So he takes it head-on. Such is the growth and improvement in technology in Formula E that one day, he says, it is \u201crealistic that a question will be asked about whether both can exist together\u201d. Talking to the <em>Observer<\/em> in the race company\u2019s west London headquarters, he adds that maybe one day, as Formula E develops, \u201cthey won\u2019t [both exist]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/may\/25\/jeff-dodds-the-formula-e-boss-planning-a-move-into-pole-position\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/828d4ee9f555f0911e232e92f66d5442ae9ee4df\/0_638_4777_2866\/master\/4777.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=79c73fde4d766d02b2fdc313f06f2b96\" title=\"Jeff Dodds: the Formula E boss planning a move into pole position\" \/>Petrolheads are quick to scorn the idea of electric car racing, but the series\u2019 chief executive is sure that time, technology \u2013 and even geography \u2013 are on his side<br \/>\nJeff Dodds has been a fan of Formula One \u201call my life\u201d, he says. That is probably a good thing because, as chief executive of electric racing series Formula E, he must find the comparison with its fossil-fuelled cousin is constant.<br \/>\nSo he takes it head-on. Such is the growth and improvement in technology in Formula E that one day, he says, it is \u201crealistic that a question will be asked about whether both can exist together\u201d. Talking to the Observer in the race company\u2019s west London headquarters, he adds that maybe one day, as Formula E develops, \u201cthey won\u2019t [both exist]\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrolheads are quick to scorn the idea of electric car racing, but the series\u2019 chief executive is sure that time, technology \u2013 and even geography \u2013 are on his side Jeff Dodds has been a fan of Formula One \u201call my life\u201d, he says. That is probably a good thing because, as chief executive of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/jeff-dodds-the-formula-e-boss-planning-a-move-into-pole-position\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeff Dodds: the Formula E boss planning a move into pole position<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}