Technology is absolutely vital to fast-forward these changes.

Seven, six, five, four, three —

I'm Sam Bird, and I drive an electric racing car.

Formula E is a single-seater racing championship but purely for electric vehicles.

Formula E is gonna be the catalyst for people believing that electric vehicles are cool, fun and that they are the future.

There's no other place in the world where you can push these technologies so hard that you can do in motor sports.

Formula E is really in the here and the now.

Electric cars, they are computers on wheels.

Not only we have to develop the hardware of the car, for sure the motor, the inverter.

But also we have an awful lot of software to be developing.

There are probably a hundred different topics we can work on to improve the overall efficiencies of our electric racing cars.

That's why our partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise is so important.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise have designed a really bespoke IT solution.

It is able to condense the amount of time it takes from the data to go from the car to the engineers.

We have reduced that time from about two minutes to 10 seconds.

That might sound marginal, but shaving two minutes of non-productive time is absolutely critical.

Racing is important not only from a sporting perspective, but from a life perspective.

I firmly believe the Formula E series will make more people on the planet go green,

because the technology from here will go into the production line and make a better, more affordable electric car.

It's not so much about the speed of the car themselves.

It's about the speed of how our team operates and how quickly we're able to adopt new technologies and integrate them into our race cars.

That's why Formula E is so important.

This is the catalyst of change.