I just thought I'd chime in for Team Swinburne from Australia, which is a university team who R&D a brand new electric formula car each year. Amongst other challenges down here, the electric engines (which can only operate up to 100C) overheating in the 35C Australian ambient is a pretty big one.

Not much of what we need actually exists, so we also engineer our own charging trolley, battery box and computer systems.

Here's our 2014 car specs: http://www.teamswinburne.com/the-car-2014/