Jeff Dodds: the Formula E boss planning a move into pole position

Petrolheads are quick to scorn the idea of electric car racing, but the series' chief executive is sure that time, technology - and even geography - are on his side

Jeff Dodds has been a fan of Formula One all my life", he says. That is probably a good thing because, as chief executive of electric racing series Formula E, he must find the comparison with its fossil-fuelled cousin is constant.

So he takes it head-on. Such is the growth and improvement in technology in Formula E that one day, he says, it is realistic that a question will be asked about whether both can exist together". Talking to the Observer in the race company's west London headquarters, he adds that maybe one day, as Formula E develops, they won't [both exist]".