2019–20 Formula E season

• James Rossiter replaced Jean-Éric Vergne in the first free practice session of the Marrakesh ePrix due to Vergne's illness.[39]

• Porsche joined the grid as a new entry.[22]
• The Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team entered the championship while HWA, which had run customer Venturi powertrains as HWA Racelab in the previous season, will run Mercedes' trackside operations.[12]
• Venturi switched to Mercedes powertrains, effectively ending their run as manufacturers.[27]
• The NIO team was sold to Lisheng Racing,[40] but will continue under the NIO brand.[5] The team is not using its own powertrains and it instead acquired last year's powertrain from GEOX Dragon.[10][9]

• Neel Jani returned to Formula E as a Porsche driver.[25]
• André Lotterer moved from DS Techeetah to Porsche.[26]
• Maximilian Günther moved from GEOX Dragon to BMW i Andretti Motorsport, replacing António Félix da Costa.[35]
• António Félix da Costa moved from BMW i Andretti Motorsport to DS Techeetah, replacing Lotterer.[20]
• 2019 Formula 2 Champion Nyck de Vries made his Formula E debut with the Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team.[14]
• GEOX Dragon selected two rookies, with 2015 and 2017 World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley partnering Nico Müller.[15][16]
• 2017 GT World Endurance champion James Calado made his debut with Jaguar, replacing Alex Lynn.[31]
• Ma Qinghua returned to Formula E as a NIO 333 driver, replacing Tom Dillmann.[10]
• Daniel Abt was suspended from Audi after cheating in the "Race At Home" eSports series during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.[18]
• On 8 June Pascal Wehrlein has left Mahindra Racing with immediate effect.[41] He was replaced by Alex Lynn.
• Daniel Abt was replaced at Audi by two time DTM champion René Rast.[19]

The Spark SRT05e demo car at the 2020 Autosport International promoting the returning London ePrix by sporting a modified, Union Jack-inspired livery.

• Formula E will make its debut in South Korea. A street circuit in Seoul has been named as the planned venue.[47]
• The season started a month earlier in November with the Diriyah ePrix as a double header, and the first ePrix on a Friday.[48]
• The Swiss ePrix (held in Bern in the previous season) is not returning as the race was a one-off. The event may return in the future from a different location.[49]
• The Monaco ePrix does not return for this season as the event is run biennially.
• The New York City ePrix will become a single race event for the first time and will not be the last race of the season as it has in previous years.
• The inaugural Jakarta ePrix was scheduled to take place on 6 June 2020.
• The Hong Kong ePrix was scheduled to be on the calendar, but was replaced by the returning Marrakesh ePrix due to the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.[42]

• The Sanya ePrix, Rome ePrix, Paris ePrix and Seoul ePrix were postponed, then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[43][44][45][1]
• The Jakarta ePrix was supposed to be moved to a new location within the city after the State Secretariat of Jakarta turned down the proposal of having a race in the historic National Monument complex in February 2020,[50] but the decision was later reverted.[51] However, on 11 March, it was announced that the race would be postponed to an unannounced date, also due to the pandemic.[52][1]
• The London ePrix was set to return to the calendar for the first time since the 2015-16 season with a double-header finale at ExCeL London on 25 and 26 July 2020.[46][N 4] The race has since been cancelled, as the venue was repurposed into a field hospital to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. [53]
• The New York City ePrix was cancelled.
• The season will finish with 6 races on the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit in Berlin with 3 double headers on 5-6, 8-9 and 12-13 August 2020.[54]

• The usage of twin motors has been banned from 2019–20 season onwards.[55]
• The Attack Mode power has been increased by 10 kW, from 225 kW to 235 kW.[56]
• Drivers are no longer allowed to activate the Attack Mode during Full Course Yellow and Safety Car periods.[56]
• For each minute spent under Full Course Yellow or Safety Car conditions, 1 kWh is subtracted from the total available energy measured from the point at which the race was neutralised.[56]

• During a race suspension, the countdown clock would stop, unless otherwise announced by the Race Director, with the aim of completing the full race time.[57]
• The fastest driver in the group qualifying stages is awarded one championship point.[57]

Points were awarded using the following structure:

Pos. Driver DIR SCL MEX MRK BER Pts 1 António Félix da Costa 14* 10G* 2* 2* 1* 67 2 Mitch Evans 10 18 3G 1G 6 56 3 Alexander Sims 8 1 Ret 5 Ret 46 4 Maximilian Günther 18 11 1 11 2G 44 5 Lucas di Grassi 13 2 7* 6* 7* 38 6 Stoffel Vandoorne 3* 3* 6* NC* 15* 38 7 Edoardo Mortara 7 4 Ret 8 5 32 8 Jean-Éric Vergne Ret 8 Ret 4 3 31 9 Oliver Rowland 4 5 17 7 9 30 10 Sam Bird 1G Ret 10 Ret 10 29 11 Sébastien Buemi Ret* 12* 13 3 4 27 12 André Lotterer 2* 14* DSQ Ret* 8 25 13 Nyck de Vries 6* 16* 5* Ret* 11 18 14 Pascal Wehrlein 11 15 4 9 22* 14 15 Robin Frijns 5 Ret 15 DSQ 12 10 16 James Calado 16 7 8 DSQ 16 10 17 Daniel Abt Ret 6 14* Ret 14 8 18 Jérôme d'Ambrosio 9 DNS NC 10 13* 3 19 Felipe Massa 12 17 9 Ret 17 2 20 Brendon Hartley 19 9 Ret 12 19 2 21 Oliver Turvey 15 DSQ 11 13 21 0 22 Nico Müller DNS Ret 12 Ret 20 0 23 Neel Jani 17 13 Ret 14 18 0 24 Ma Qinghua 20 19 16 Ret 23 0 Pos. Driver DIR SCL MEX MRK BER Pts Source:[58]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap G – Fastest in group stage * – FanBoost

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.