“The car is the smartest piece of technology we have,” Andretti Formula E driver Jake Dennis told me at the Tokyo E-Prix. Before a race, teams use simulations to calculate how much energy the car should consume on each lap and where the driver should accelerate, coast and brake. Latest Videos From T3 Watch full video here:“At some point, you simply have to trust and follow the car,” Dennis says. Formula E says its current GEN3 Evo cars recover nearly 50% of the energy required for a race this way. “We aren’t used to managing energy, managing the draft and saving before spending,” he explains.