Formule ETS Montréal

What Formule ETS Montréal does

Formule ETS Montréal is a student-run engineering organization founded in 1988 that designs, builds, and races electric vehicles in the Formula SAE student competition series. The team is affiliated with École de technologie supérieure (ETS), an engineering university in Montréal, Canada, and operates with a headcount in the 11–50 range consistent with a multi-disciplinary student team recruiting across engineering disciplines. Its website (https://formule-ets.ca/) could not be retrieved during data collection — the page returned only a verification/loading screen — so operational details beyond the firmographic and descriptive baseline are not in evidence.

The organization's core product is a custom-designed electric race car built for the annual Formula SAE competition cycle. The vehicle integrates subsystems spanning electrical powertrain, battery management, vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, chassis design, and embedded controls, providing hands-on engineering training to its members. No commercial product portfolio, proprietary software platform, pricing structure, or go-to-market motion is documented in the available source material; management team, investors, partnerships, certifications, and AI/ML capabilities are all unpopulated in the input.

The business model is not clearly disclosed. The entity is labeled 'for_profit' in firmographic data, but no revenue figures, customer lists, pricing, or financial disclosures are available. Functionally consistent with peer Formula SAE teams, the organization is most plausibly funded through a mix of university allocations, faculty grants, and corporate sponsorship in exchange for vehicle branding and engineering recruitment visibility, but this is inferred rather than evidenced. No parent company, subsidiaries, leadership roster, or ownership structure is documented in the available data.

Name

Formule ETS Montréal

Website

https://formule-ets.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Formule ETS Montréal is a student engineering team at École de technologie supérieure (ETS) in Montréal that designs, builds, and races electric vehicles in Formula SAE competitions. Founded in 1988, the club develops full-vehicle subsystems as an extracurricular engineering platform for its members.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Motorsport Engineering / Electric Race Cars

NAICS

Sports Teams and Clubs (711211), Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Racing, Including Track Operation (7948)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAKAGAH

Motorsports Support & Feeder Series (Developmental Championships)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Sports (Leagues, Teams, Events, Venues)/Motorsports Series, Teams & Promoters

SECONDARYMPAKAJAJ

Motorsport Driver Training Schools & Racing Academies

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Sports (Leagues, Teams, Events, Venues)/Sports Camps, Academies & Training Centers

SECONDARYMPAKABAB

Motorsports Teams (F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, Rally, MotoGP, etc.)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Sports (Leagues, Teams, Events, Venues)/Professional Sports Teams & Clubs

Keywords

• Electric race cars
• Formula SAE racing
• Student engineering club
• Motorsport engineering
• Race car design

Headquarters

HQ city

Montreal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Formule ETS Montréal is a student club that designs and builds electric race cars to compete in Formula SAE competitions. The club's primary activity is the engineering, fabrication, and on-track competition of a fully electric race car, developed by its student members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electric race car (Formula SAE entry) A fully electric race car designed and fabricated by student members of Formule ETS Montréal to compete in Formula SAE electric-class competitions. The vehicle is the club's primary deliverable and is not sold.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Formula E: The professional FIA-sanctioned all-electric single-seater championship. Broad incumbent operating in the same EV motorsports category as Formule ETS Montréal's electric build philosophy, but at a professional commercial scale rather than student-club scale.

Direct peers

• aUToronto (University of Toronto Formula SAE): University of Toronto's Formula SAE team, a direct competitor in the same Canadian university engineering motorsports ecosystem with overlapping talent pool and sponsor base.
• Revs (Stanford Racing): Stanford's Formula SAE team. Direct peer in the same competition class with a comparable student-club structure and EV powertrain focus.
• Waterloo Formula Electric: University of Waterloo's electric Formula SAE team. Direct peer in Canadian university EV motorsports, also competing in Formula SAE with the same powertrain philosophy.
• Georgia Tech Racing: Georgia Institute of Technology's Formula SAE team. Direct peer in the same student engineering motorsports category, with comparable scale and competition cadence.
• TUfast: Technical University of Munich's Formula Student team. Direct international peer competing in the same Formula Student EV class with comparable engineering scope and student-club structure.
• MIT Motorsports: MIT's Formula SAE team and one of the most established and high-performing university motorsports programs in North America. Direct peer in the same competition category and student-club operating model.
• McGill Formula Electric: McGill University's student Formula SAE team that designs and builds electric race cars. Direct Canadian peer with identical competition, EV focus, and student-club operating model.
• AMZ Racing: ETH Zurich's Formula Student team, multiple-time world champion. Direct international peer in the same Formula Student electric category with a comparable student-built EV program.

Emerging players

• EcoCAR: U.S. Department of Energy / Argonne National Lab-sponsored student EV engineering challenge. Adjacent peer that overlaps with Formule ETS Montréal's EV-engineering educational mission and OEM-recruitment pipeline, though operating as a multi-year vehicle development challenge rather than a Formula-style racing series.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/formuleets

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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