Official: Cupra Kiro will compete as a Porsche customer team in the Gen4 era of Formula E

German car manufacturer Porsche and the US Formula E team Cupra Kiro have announced an extension to their partnership. From next season onwards, Cupra Kiro will compete with Porsche powertrains that are at exactly the same level as those used by the factory team.

Cupra Kiro will thus be the third team to compete with the Stuttgart-based manufacturer’s Gen4 car, known as the Porsche 975 RSE. Porsche had already announced a few months ago that it would compete with two works teams in Formula E in future. The partnership with Andretti, however, is due to expire at the end of the season after four years.

With the introduction of the Gen3 Evo car in Formula E, the Kiro team broke new ground: for the first time since Season 2, the team did not use powertrains developed in-house, but instead became Porsche’s second customer team. However, the German manufacturer did not supply the latest powertrains, but rather hardware that had already been homologated two years earlier. This is now set to change with the coming season.

Nevertheless, Cupra Kiro managed to be competitive with the car known as the Porsche 99X Electric WCG3: Dan Ticktum secured his first Formula E podium in Tokyo in 2025 and even went on to win the Jakarta E-Prix a few weeks later – more than ten years after the team’s last victory at the 2015 Moscow E-Prix. Ticktum also secured pole position in London in 2025 and at both races in Monaco in 2026. Formula E rookie Pepe Marti also secured podium finishes in Monaco and Sanya this season.

Cupra Kiro scored 86 points in each of the two seasons as a Porsche customer team. After finishing 10th in the Team World Championship, the team currently lies eighth in the overall standings this season.

 

 

 

 

 

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