Extreme E: Electric Off-Roaders To Race In The Amazon, Nepal, Greenland, And More In 2021

The calendar for the first season of Extreme E, the adventurous off-road racing series from the minds that brought us Formula E, has been announced prior to the championship kicking off in 2021.

The off-road racing championship, launched by Alejandro Agag (the same man behind Formula E), will initially take competitors to Lac Rose, Senegal between January 22 and 24, 2021. From March 4-6, the second round will be held in Sharaan, Al-‘Ula, Saudi Arabia while the third round is scheduled in for May 6-8 in the Kali Gandaki Valley of Nepal.

Extreme E’s penultimate round will be held in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland from August 27-29 while the season will conclude in the Amazon Rainforest in Santarem, Brazil. Organizers behind the championship selected these locations to highlight the impacts of climate change.

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You asked for it, so here it is – a first ever onboard look at the ODYSSEY 21 from our test on the dunes of AlUla this week… Let us know what you think!#ExtremeE #ElectricOdyssey pic.twitter.com/YkyxKParBJ

— Extreme E (@ExtremeELive) January 13, 2020

“We came up with the twist of holding the races in locations that had already been destroyed or badly affected by climate change, so we could showcase what is happening to the planet right now,” Agag recently told Top Gear.

“We have these five fantastic locations that make up our calendar, and all of them are completely interconnected. We were in Lac Rose in Senegal last week and the people there are feeling the rise of the sea level – houses near the coast have been destroyed. However, we also saw the ice caps melting when we were in Greenland, and that is what causes the problems in Senegal, and then the deforestation and the fires in the Amazon are partly causing the rise in temperature that melts those ice caps. Everything is one,” he said.

Ride onboard with me in the @ExtremeELive E-SUV in the dunes and rocks of Saudi Arabia! What do you think? 🤘#ChangingTheRules pic.twitter.com/eNePhPDRwe

— Guerlain Chicherit (@GChicherit) January 14, 2020

Organizers are still finalizing the format but we know race weekends will take place over three days with three cars going head-to-head at a time.

All competitors will race in the Extreme E Odyssey 21 but teams will be able to create distinct bodywork for their vehicles.