Formula E car debuts climate stripes livery

The climate stripes feature on both of the rear wings of the Envision car

A Formula E car will feature a design from a University of Reading professor which demonstrates rising temperatures on earth.

Each stripe on the climate stripes show a year from 1961 to 2010 displayed chronologically with blue indicating cooler than average years and red showing hotter than average years.

They were designed by Prof Ed Hawkins and have previously featured on Reading Football Club's home shirt in the 2022/23 season.

The stripes will feature on the rear wings of the Silverstone-based Envision car for the new season, which starts in Sao Paulo in December.

The University of Reading said that more than a million people downloaded the graphic from their website when it was released in 2019.

Prof Hawkins said: "It's wonderful to see another sport taking the climate stripes and using it to start conversations about the risks we face from climate change.

"[I was] very excited to hear this, that it would be travelling all over the world, spreading the message far and wide, starting conversations amongst the fans, who are there watching, about the risks that we face and what they can all do about it."

The climate stripes creator Prof Ed Hawkins with the Envision car

Envision team principal Sylvain Filippi said: "We're really happy to have the climate stripes on the car.

"It's really important because our race cars go all around the world, we are racing on all continents and it's really great to have these climate stripes on the car because we get so many questions about it from any country around the world.

"It's really great to show this really fantastic symbol of climate change research so we are really proud to have this on the car."