Nico Müller will join Pascal Wehrlein to complete the Porsche Formula E Team driver line-up for the 2025-26 season.
The Swiss factory driver moves from Porsche customer team Andretti to succeed António Félix da Costa, who departs after three seasons with the team.
Wehrlein, Drivers’ World Champion for the 2023/2024 season, has been part of the Porsche Formula E Team since August 2020.
Müller joined the factory driver line-up in August 2024 and competed last season as a regular driver in the Porsche 99X Electric for Andretti Formula E.
The team enters Season 12 as the reigning Teams’ and Manufacturers’ World Champion to contest its seventh Formula E season.
In addition to the factory Porsche Formula E Team, the US customer team Andretti Formula E will compete with the Porsche 99X Electric of the latest generation GEN3 Evo.
A second Porsche customer team, Cupra Kiro, will also participate, relying on 99X technology from the previous generation GEN3. In Formula E, the brand gains valuable insights for its production sports cars.
“I am delighted that we continue to have one of the strongest driver pairings in the field,” said Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport.
“Pascal is, of course, a well-known figure. Nico has been able to familiarise himself with the Porsche 99X Electric at Andretti during the previous season and is therefore well prepared when he gets into the factory car. Our goals for the upcoming season remain the same: We want to fight for all three titles at the finale in London next year.”
Both drivers have already been conducting development work in the simulator in recent weeks for the season after next, when the fourth generation of Formula E cars (GEN4), with over 600 kW of power, will debut.
Preparations for the first test drives at the end of the year are underway at the Porsche R&D centre in Weissach.
Parallel to the GEN4 development, Porsche is embarking on the final season with the current, third-generation car, which begins on 6 December with the opening race in São Paulo, Brazil.
Before that, the official pre-season tests will take place in Valencia, Spain, where all teams will take to the track together (27–30 November).
Florian Modlinger, Director Factory Motorsport Formula E, said: “Welcome to the team, Nico! For us, he’s the logical successor to António and we’ve been observing his abilities for some time, which is why he became a factory driver last year.
“It was also important for us to choose an experienced driver who could jump in the car as seamlessly as possible. Nico is already familiar with the 99X Electric from Andretti and has also done simulator work at Weissach.
“We want to challenge for all the titles, so we still need two drivers who have everything they need to score points as quickly and consistently as possible.”
