Jenson Button offers thoughts on F1 becoming an all-electric series

Jenson Button says that there is no chance F1 is going to become an all-electric series in the near future, given the changes that would be required in order for that to happen.

The sport has entered a brand new era in 2022, with a swathe of changes being made to the aerodynamic make-up of the cars, with a view to make them easier to follow and thus generate closer, more exciting racing.

So far, we appear to have seen progress made in that regard and hopefully there will be more to come, but there are going to always be further regulation changes down the line.

Indeed, in the middle of this decade the current hybrid power unit set-up will change and, of course, with the sport bidding to become as environmentally friendly as possible, that revolution will naturally intrigue as to what route we head down.

There will always be calls for F1 to go all-electric, too, in a bid to achieve such goals, especially with Formula E continuing to push the boundaries, but F1 world champion Button believes that an all-electric series in F1 is a little while off yet.

“Formula One is obviously the pinnacle of motorsport, best drivers in the world, best manufacturers in the world. But, I think if you turned around and made them EV tomorrow, they’d become very heavy – and that’s exactly what you do not want,” Button told The Gentleman’s Journal.

“Also, you wouldn’t be able to have an hour-and-a-half race, because it [the cars] would be the size of an SUV to get all the battery packs in it. So no, it’s not going to happen in the near future.”

Perhaps in the future, Formula 1 will become all-electric but it will only do so once it is at a point where the technology is advanced enough to not hamper the speed and length of the races.

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