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The Andretti Formula E team will switch from Porsche to Nissan powertrains for the 2026/27 season, according to The Race.
The decision, which is expected to be officially announced at the end of the current season, will mean that Nissan regains a customer team after McLaren departed Formula E before the start of the 2025/26 campaign.
This was also an expected move for Porsche. As part of its announcement to field a second entry from the 2026/27 season, the manufacturer revealed it would only have one customer team. As a result, either Andretti or Cupra would need to find a new powertrain supplier. It now seems Andretti has opted for Nissan.
At this month’s Mexico City E-Prix , Andretti team principal Roger Griffiths was tight-lipped on specifics but told The Race that the TWG Global-owned outfit is seeking “a closer relationship” with a manufacturer in the Gen4 era.
“When we first got into conversations with Porsche [in 2021], it was always this strong desire to be an integral part in their path, to be an integral part of making the car faster, or making the car more efficient, developing the control strategies,” said Griffiths.
“We’re certainly hoping, going forward in Season 13 [2026-27] that we can have a closer relationship [with a manufacturer].
“It really didn’t work out [up until now] for a variety of reasons. But we’re hopeful that with a reset on the manufacturer side of things, we can start afresh and that we can be more integrated, be more involved in the actual manufacturer testing, spend more time at the track working with their engineers, their engineers working with ours, developing IP together, too.”
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Andretti has been partnered with Porsche for the duration of the Gen3 era starting in 2023.
TWG Global’s stable of sporting ventures also includes the Cadillac Formula One team, which will eventually see General Motors (GM) build an engine to create a full works team in the series. Andretti is not looking to follow this model though, instead preferring the manufacturer partnership route.
“Honestly, at this point, I don’t think we would ever be a manufacturer in our own right, just given the knowledge base that we would have to have to develop a powertrain to be successful,” Griffiths said.
“We like the ability to make our own decisions and not be told what to do, but we would like to be part of the process in developing the car, and maybe some of the things that we can bring to the table benefit our manufacturer partner as well.
“We really like it to be a little bit more of a two-way door that things come in and out, and not just being dictated to or told how we’re going to run the programme.”
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