Watch what happens when a Formula E car goes head-to-head with a cheetah in a drag race
Driver Jean-Eric Vergne of Formula E’s Techeetah team races the fastest land animal in the world ahead of the HKT Hong Kong E-Prix
What happens when you pit the fastest land animal in the world against a Formula E car?
Ahead of this weekend’s season-opening HKT Hong Kong E-Prix double header, it was cheetah versus Techeetah in South Africa as the Chinese-backed FIA Formula E Championship team made a short film to raise awareness of the threat of climate change to wildlife.
The cheetah can go from zero to 100 kilometres per hour (62mph) in around three seconds – just like a Formula E car – and Techeetah driver Jean-Eric Vergne was put to the test in a drag race in the Western Cape.
The race was part of a promotional effort to mark next week’s United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi.
There are less than 7,000 cheetahs remaining in the wild, with the species further threatened by man-made rising temperatures – an issue UN Environment partner Formula E looks to tackle.
