LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The sport for function electrical racing sequence, Extreme E, has immediately introduced Kaizen Clean Energy (KCE) as its Official Clean Energy Technology Provider for Season 3, beginning in 2023.

Kaizen Clean Energy will assist ENOWA, NEOM’s power, water and hydrogen subsidiary, and Green Hydrogen Power Partner to Extreme E, in delivering a pioneering hydrogen microgrid answer to the championship.

Alejandro Agag, founder and CEO, Extreme E, stated: “Extreme E required a mobile clean energy solution that could be transported easily on the St Helena and deployed at our races in remote locations. Kaizen Clean Energy’s system is perfectly aligned with Extreme E’s needs. Their unique hydrogen production and purification technology will enable Extreme E to charge its race fleet and support the series’ goals to take its entire event operations power off grid with 100% carbon neutral hydrogen energy – which will be a first in motorsport.”

KCE shall be manufacturing, integrating, and deploying their hydrogen manufacturing techniques from their facility in Texas to be used in microgrid energy, hydrogen fueling, and industrial hydrogen provide beginning within the first quarter of 2023.

“We are thrilled to partner with Extreme E to help charge their fleet and power their event operations using locally generated 100% clean energy”, stated Robert Meaney, Co-Founder of Kaizen Clean Energy. “KCE is committed to supporting Extreme E’s vision for an equitable and environmentally beneficial racing series using our microgrid technology to provide safe, economically viable, and logistically friendly method for off grid hydrogen infrastructure.”

Heading into its third season, Extreme E is a radical off-road racing sequence which showcases electrical SUVs and futuristic applied sciences in a few of the world’s most distant and difficult environments.

This five-event international voyage utilises its sporting platform for the aim of selling electrification, surroundings and equality. The sequence’ purpose is to spotlight the influence of local weather change in a few of the world’s most endangered environments, promote the adoption of electrical automobiles to pave the way in which for a decrease carbon future, and supply a world-leading gender-equal motorsport platform.

The St Helena, a refitted former Royal Mail ship, transports the Championship’s freight and logistics, together with the racing automobiles and all paddock infrastructure, around the globe, as a decrease carbon transportation possibility in comparison with airfreight.

Kaizen Clean Energy’s technical partnership helps Extreme E’s purpose of getting the bottom carbon footprint in motorsport, and crucially creating minimal native influence on the environments through which it races.

Season 3 of Extreme E kicks off in NEOM, Saudi Arabia on March 11-12^th, 2023, earlier than heading to Scotland, Sardinia, the Amazon or the USA, and a finale in Chile.

To be taught extra about Extreme E, go to – www.Extreme-E.com

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Extreme E: Extreme E is a radical off-road racing sequence, based by the identical workforce behind Formula E, which showcases electrical SUVs and futuristic applied sciences in a few of the world’s most distant and difficult environments.

This five-event international voyage utilises its sporting platform for the aim of selling electrification, surroundings and equality. The sequence’ purpose is to spotlight the influence of local weather change in a few of the world’s most endangered environments, promote the adoption of electrical automobiles to pave the way in which for a decrease carbon future, and supply a world-first gender-equal motorsport platform.

The first sport to ever be constructed out of a social function, Extreme E goals to minimise environmental influence whereas maximising consciousness, racing in locations which have already been broken or affected by local weather change or human interference and taking followers deep into the guts of essentially the most urgent points going through our planet’s future.

Not solely that, however Extreme E can be serving to the automotive business to develop future-facing expertise utilizing racing as a platform for highway innovation, which accelerates change ten-fold.

About Kaizen Clean Energy: KCE, a producer of hydrogen turbines licensed from Element 1, is growing built-in options for electrical car (EV) charging, hydrogen fueling, and distributed energy for the grid and important property. KCE presents it’s cellular microgrid to prospects by means of an Energy as a Service contract, which eliminates giant capital bills and gives prospects with the pliability to scale with power wants over time. For extra data, go to www.kaizencleanenergy.com.

Season 2 Calendar:

Extreme E Season 3 calendar (2023):

March 11-12: Saudi Arabia

May 13-14: Scotland

July 8-9: Sardinia, Italy*

September 16-17: Brazil or USA

December 2-3: Chile

About NEOM: NEOM is an accelerator of human progress and a imaginative and prescient of what a New Future would possibly appear like. It is a area in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea being constructed from the bottom up as a dwelling laboratory – a spot the place entrepreneurship will chart the course for this New Future. It shall be a vacation spot and a house for individuals who dream massive and wish to be a part of constructing a brand new mannequin for distinctive livability, creating thriving companies and reinventing environmental conservation.

NEOM will embrace hyperconnected, cognitive cities and cities, ports and enterprise zones, analysis facilities, sports activities and leisure venues and vacationer locations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, enterprise leaders and firms will come to analysis, incubate and commercialize new applied sciences and enterprises in groundbreaking methods. Residents of NEOM will embody a global ethos and embrace a tradition of exploration, risk-taking and variety.

For additional data e mail media@neom.com or go to www.neom.com and www.neom.com/en-us/newsroom

About ENOWA: ENOWA is a world-class power, water and hydrogen firm based in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. ENOWA produces and delivers clear and sustainable sources for industrial and business functions utilizing a customer-centric sensible and linked system, designed to be round and takes benefit of NEOM’s optimum photo voltaic and wind power profile. ENOWA advantages from NEOM’s greenfield web site, which has no legacy infrastructure, to advance Energy, Water, and Hydrogen innovation.

ENOWA will act as a catalyst and incubator for growing new, sustainable power and water companies whereas creating a sturdy financial sector regionally. Through its dedication to renewable power and environment friendly water administration, ENOWA seeks to change into a worldwide reference for business leaders and setting a benchmark for sustainable financial round techniques around the globe.

For extra data, please go to enowa.neom.com

About Continental Tires: Founding Partner and Official Tire Partner

Continental develops pioneering applied sciences and companies for sustainable and linked mobility of individuals and their items. Founded in 1871, the expertise firm presents secure, environment friendly, clever, and inexpensive options for automobiles, machines, site visitors and transportation.

The tyres enterprise space has 24 manufacturing and improvement places worldwide. Continental is without doubt one of the main tyre producers with greater than 56,000 workers and presents a broad product vary for passenger automobiles, business and special-purpose automobiles in addition to two-wheelers. Through steady funding in analysis and improvement, Continental makes a serious contribution to secure, value efficient and ecologically environment friendly mobility. The portfolio of the tyres enterprise space consists of companies for the tyre commerce and fleet functions, in addition to digital administration techniques for tyres.

Continental has developed a brand new high-performance tyre for Extreme E Season 2, redesigned to incorporate the usage of extra sustainable supplies. Each of the 30 tyres that Continental has provided to all ten Extreme E groups now comprises recycled polyester produced from roughly 60 PET bottles. In whole, round a 3rd of every second-generation CrossContact Extreme E tyre consists of recycled and renewable uncooked supplies.

About CBMM: Founding Supplier

CBMM | Niobium is a founding provider of Extreme E and the Championship’s official Niobium Technology Supplier and Chassis Technology Supplier.

Critical to the automotive sector, niobium produces stronger, lighter and extra sustainable automobiles with higher power effectivity. Its applied sciences are already extensively utilized in numerous areas, together with light-weighting, security, emissions discount and electronics that can assist result in a sustainable sector transformation. Key functions of niobium within the Mobility sector embrace chassis, brakes and exhaust techniques, drivetrains, batteries and EV charging stations and any variety of ancillary elements. Its qualities imply supplies could be made lighter, stronger, extra strong and extra dependable – all whereas being extra sustainable than different supplies.

CBMM presents technical innovation to prospects across the globe by means of a workforce of over 2,000 extremely skilled, devoted professionals offering cutting-edge niobium merchandise and expertise to over 400 shoppers in round 40 nations.

About LuisaViaRoma: Official Fashion Partner

Defined by the Financial Times as “a haven for directional fashion,” LUISAVIAROMA.COM is the highest on-line luxurious vogue vacation spot with 5,000,000 guests per thirty days and worldwide transport. With every new season, the web site presents the collections of greater than 600 established designers and younger rising skills.

About Zenith: Official Timekeeper and Founding Partner

Zenith exists to encourage people to pursue their goals and make them come true – in opposition to all odds. Since its institution in 1865, Zenith grew to become the primary watch manufacture within the fashionable sense of the time period, and its watches have accompanied extraordinary figures that dreamt massive and strived to attain the unattainable – from Louis Blériot’s history-making flight throughout the English Channel to Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting stratospheric free-fall leap. Zenith can be highlighting visionary and trailblazing ladies – previous and current – by celebrating their accomplishments and creating in 2020 its first-ever assortment devoted completely to them, Defy Midnight.

With innovation as its guiding star, Zenith options distinctive in-house developed and manufactured actions in all its watches. Since the creation of the El Primero in 1969, the world’s first computerized chronograph calibre, Zenith has gone on to grasp fractions of the second with the Chronomaster Sport and its 1/tenth of a second precision and the DEFY 21 with a precision of 1/a hundredth of a second.

About Allianz: Founding Partner and Official Insurance Partner

The Allianz Group is without doubt one of the world’s main insurers and asset managers with greater than 100 million personal and company prospects in additional than 70 nations. Allianz prospects profit from a broad vary of private and company insurance coverage companies, starting from property, life and medical health insurance to help companies to credit score insurance coverage and international enterprise insurance coverage. Allianz is without doubt one of the world’s largest buyers, managing round 790 billion euros on behalf of its insurance coverage prospects. Furthermore, our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors handle 1.7 trillion euros of third-party property.

About Vodafone Business: Official Technology and Communication Partner

With experience in connectivity, international scale and the main IoT platform, Vodafone Business is a number one expertise communications firm serving to organisations reach a digital world and holding society linked. Vodafone’s function is to attach for a greater future, enabling an inclusive and sustainable digital society, and lots of of its options have sustainability and inclusivity embedded.

Unique in its scale as the most important pan-European and African expertise communications firm, Vodafone transforms the way in which we stay and work by means of its innovation, expertise, connectivity, platforms, services. Vodafone operates cellular and stuck networks in 21 nations, and companions with cellular networks in 52 extra. As of 31 December 2021, they’d over 300m cellular prospects, greater than 28m mounted broadband prospects and over 22m TV prospects.

This collaboration will see Vodafone Business main improvements and capabilities comparable to 5G, MPN, IOT and MEC, built-in into Extreme E’s international operations and can embrace full involvement within the purpose- pushed components of the sequence, with particular prominence on Extreme E’s Legacy Programmes and the Science Laboratory on board the St Helena. Through its IOT options, Vodafone Business helps sustainability efforts, together with agriculture, forestation and decarbonisation of power grids.

Find out extra on http://www.Vodafone.com/business and observe Vodafone on its social media channels:

Twitter: @VodafoneGroup

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/vodafone

About Neat Burger: Official Plant-based Partner

Neat Burger is without doubt one of the world’s quickest rising plant-based sustainable burger chains, backed by key buyers Formula 1 Champion and X44 Extreme E workforce proprietor, Lewis Hamilton, and actor and environmentalist, Leonardo DiCaprio.

Established in 2019, Neat Burger has achieved not solely a loyal fanbase however business recognition too, having gained for a second yr operating the UK’s Best Vegan Restaurant of the Year on the Deliveroo Restaurant Awards and it was nominated for the 2021 GQ Food & Drink Sustainability Award. Most just lately, the model was awarded PETA’s inaugural Company of the Year Award for its recreation altering strategy to plant-based diets, encouraging folks to eat scrumptious, protein-packed plant-based meals.

As a part of its mission to create a sustainable future, Neat Burger is working with Eden Reforestation Projects on its giant scale reforestation initiatives. In 2021, Neat Burger funded the planting of over a million mangrove bushes in Madagascar.

About EY: Official Innovation Partner

EY is a worldwide chief in assurance, tax, technique, transaction and consulting companies. The insights and high quality companies they ship assist construct belief and confidence in capital markets and in economies the world over. EY develops excellent leaders who workforce to ship on our guarantees to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, they play a vital function in constructing a greater working world for his or her folks, for his or her shoppers and for his or her communities.

EY initially joined the Championship to assist Extreme E obtain its dedication of minimizing the general footprint while making a optimistic legacy. In collaborating with Extreme E, EY has change into a significant a part of creating an Environment Impact Assessment framework which additional drives the championship within the path of optimistic change. Whilst Extreme E strives to race with out leaving a hint, the framework offered by EY has allowed the championship to attenuate its environmental influence throughout every race location. Both prior and post-racing influence assessments have allowed Extreme E to strategically plan their actions inside these areas.

About INTERprotección: Official Insurance Broker

INTERprotección consists of a gaggle of Mexican insurance coverage, reinsurance and surety bond brokerage corporations. With international presence and recognition, INTERprotección has greater than 40 years of expertise in administration and complete threat consulting within the Mexican market. Its enterprise mannequin is targeted on bringing the consumer to the forefront and providing them the perfect service by means of modern and disruptive merchandise, extra just lately with its new model ​inter.mx,​ its insurance coverage digital platform that’s remodeling the insurtech recreation.

About Enel X Way: Official Smart Charging Partner

Enel X Way is the Enel Group’s new international enterprise line completely devoted to electrical mobility. Currently, Enel X Way manages roughly 320,000 charging factors, each immediately and thru interoperability agreements in place worldwide¹. As a worldwide platform for e-mobility, the corporate is targeted on growing versatile charging applied sciences and options to enhance the client expertise by supporting the electrification of transport for shoppers, companies, cities and public administrations.

Find out extra on https://enelxway.it/en/home and observe Enel X Way on its social media channels:

LinkedIn: Enel X Way

Twitter: @enelxway

Instagram: @enelxway

Facebook: @enelxway

¹ Public and personal charging factors, together with factors of interoperability.