Jaguar TCS Racing, the Formula E all-electric motor racing team, has announced a new multi-year partnership with Fortescue Zero, the green energy tech arm of Australian metals and mining giant Fortescue.
Through the deal, Elysia, Fortescue Zero’s electric battery brand, will become the official battery intelligence partner of Jaguar TCS Racing, supporting the team’s overhaul into the new generation of technical regulations, termed ‘Gen4’.
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The team's parent company Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) already leveraged Elysia tech for the development of its own consumer electric vehicles, an agreement in place since 2024.
Now, Fortescue Zero will collaborate with the team to support the development of new battery products going forward across the multi-season agreement.
Speaking on the deal, Jaguar TCS Racing team principal Ian Jame commented: “Technical innovation will be critical to success in this new chapter of Formula E, and what makes this partnership particularly exciting is the opportunity to demonstrate how innovation developed through the demands of motorsport can drive meaningful benefits beyond the race track.”
The Elysia brand will feature on the nose cone of the Jaguar racing cars throughout the agreement. This season those cars will be driven by former Formula 1 racer Stoffel Vandoorne of Belgium, who won the Formula E driver’s championship in 2021-22, and Portugal’s António Félix da Costa, who won two ePrix races for Jaguar in 2025-26.
Jaguar TCS Racing is perhaps the most successful team of the Formula E ‘Gen3’ era, having finished no lower than second in the team standings since the Gen3 regulations were introduced ahead of the 2022-23 campaign.
Indeed, the team won the teams championship in the 2023-24 season, and again in the 2025-26 campaign, making them the current defending world champions.
Other prominent sponsors this season include naming rights partner Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), oil company Castrol, Dow Mobility Science, financial services firm Chase Bank, and, of course, team owner Jaguar, the iconic luxury car brand of JLR.
The 2026-27 Formula E campaign will begin with the two-round Jeddah ePrix in Saudi Arabia on December 18 and 19, 2026, and run through the two-round Tokyo ePrix in Japan on July 24 and 25, 2027.
For its part, this is not Fortescue’s first foray into motorsport, or even Formula E.
Indeed, since 2024, Fortescue has been the official pit boost supplier of Formula E, utilizing its tech advancements to aid on-track action across the series.
Back in January 2022, the firm acquired Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), the advanced technology and engineering arm of the Williams Racing team, of the prestigious Formula 1 motor racing series.
That deal served as a means of gaining access to WAE’s battery technology, which has been partly developed on the track with Williams, illustrating its investment in the electric powertrain industry and, as such, its grounding for a Formula E team.
Most recently, Fortescue Zero entered the series proper as a competitor, acquiring the Penske Autosport team.
