Engines with more electricity in 2025
This Monday, Toto Wolff revealed that the hybrid engines of Formula 1 will be more electric from 2025 onwards.

This weekend, Mercedes, Renault, Ferrari, Audi and Porsche came together for a meeting to discuss the next power units in Formula 1, to be implemented in the upcoming regulations in 2025.
Toto Wolff returned, this Monday, during the FIA conference in Monaco on the next engines and claims that F1 is right to stick to turbo hybrid engines and environmentally friendly fuels. The Austrian also added that there is an agreement stating that F1 cannot go back to noisy internal combustion engines. This decision is unlikely to please Sebastian Vettel who, in the past, advocated for the return of V12 engines.
The discussion was ‘What to do in the future at the engine level?’, because we want to reduce costs, so we don’t want to reinvent the wheel. But we also want to have an engine that is relevant from 2025 to 2030 and we cannot burn old-fashioned gasoline with engines that roar, when everyone expects us to take the path to electric. These engines will continue to use fuel. We keep the current V6 format, but the electrical element will increase tremendously, he said.
According to Toto Wolff, the next engines will continue to use thermal energy, but the main objective is the development of a greener fuel, in order to reduce CO2 emissions and thus be in line with the ecological ambitions of F1.
« If we keep internal combustion engines, it’s because we believe that fuel will stay with us for a long time. In Europe, we certainly have the ambitious goal that electric mobility will be part of our daily life by 2030, and I see at Mercedes how ambitious the goals are, but in the rest of the world, we will have millions of vehicles that will continue to use fuel. »
« For Mercedes cars themselves, we believe that we will have several million vehicles worldwide still using fuel. Our contribution with our innovation is to help them develop eco-friendly fuels, whether biofuels or synthetic fuels. Our cars will use 100% eco-friendly fuels by 2025, and this is how we will contribute to reducing CO2 emissions worldwide. »
The executive director of Mercedes concluded that the development of more environmentally friendly technologies was attracting more young people to become interested in F1.
If you look at F1 today and the large audience that follows us, especially the young people, the group where we are developing the most is the 15 to 35 year olds. I was in Austria this weekend, it wasn’t great on the track, but it was impressive to see the stands full. We had 115,000 spectators. And what I saw was a young audience like we’ve never seen in Formula 1.
« And I believe that for this young audience, Formula 1 – and we conducted a survey – represents innovation and high technology. We may be moving away a little from the gladiators. But the young people of the new generation see it as fighter jets flying around the track. We must never forget that innovation and high technology are part of our DNA.