Workshop Automated & Electrified Racing:
Opportunities for Future Intelligent Vehicles

Automated and electrified vehicles are reshaping mobility. While automation advances safety and efficiency, electrification imposes constraints in energy management, battery performance, powertrain dynamics, and thermal limits. However, reliable operation in complex, dynamic environments remains unresolved. In critical scenarios, automated vehicles must execute high-acceleration maneuvers at the friction limits, make decisions under uncertainty, and interact safely with other agents. In electrified platforms, these capabilities are tightly coupled with power delivery constraints, regenerative braking, and energy-time trade-offs that redefine the achievable performance envelope.

Automated and electrified racing offer controlled testbeds to address these challenges. Racing exposes perception, planning, control, and hardware integration to sustained operation at the limits. Electrified racing adds coupled motion-energy optimization, including torque distribution, battery-aware trajectory planning, and thermal-constrained strategy design. Thus, racing environments accelerate the development of integrated, high-performance architectures.

This workshop gathers researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities in automated and electrified racing. Invited talks will present insights from the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, Formula One, and automated electrified racing series, alongside recent theoretical and experimental advances. A round table will address the opportunities for transferring racing technologies to intelligent road vehicles. By unifying autonomy and electrification at the limits, the workshop aims to define future benchmarks for high-performance intelligent mobility.

The workshop will start with a brief opening from the organizers, followed by five invited talks (25 min each, including Q&A) from both leading professors and industry practitioners. The final part of our workshop will feature a one-hour round-table on:
Racetrack Meets Road: What Transfers from Automated and Electrified Racing to Intelligent Road Vehicles?

The workshop will be held in-person in Naples, Italy. Additionally, we welcome the audience to join virtually via Zoom.