E1 Series set out to create something that had not existed before: a global electric powerboat racing championship, run on open water, with zero emissions. Clean races, real speed, and a genuine commitment to protecting the seas that host them. Building an entirely new sport from scratch, around electric vessels, on some of the most demanding racing venues in the world, is not a small thing. When we first heard about it, we thought it was one of the most interesting things happening in motorsport. We still do.
When E1 came to us, the honest answer from most of the industry was that marine charging at race pace was not really feasible. The conditions are difficult: saltwater, wooden docks, humidity, heat, and live racing environments with tight turnaround times between heats. Others said chargers do not belong on the water. We decided that sounded like exactly the kind of problem worth working on. We became the official charging partner of the E1 Series from the very first season and built what became a living lab for developing charging solutions in conditions that do not get much harder.
That lab is live. The races have run, the boats have charged and raced and charged again, and the infrastructure has held up. For QiOn, this partnership gets at something essential about what the company is built for. Nobody had done this before. We went anyway, from day one, and we are still the official charging partner today. That is the part we are most proud of.
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