
Nissan IM02 e.dams #22 O. Rowland Formula E Season 5 2019 Minichamps 1:18

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Specifications
- Brand
- Nissan
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 114180022
- Year
- 2019
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- Formula Models
- Vehicle Class
- Formula 2/3/E & IndyCar
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- —
About the Nissan IM02 e.dams #22 O. Rowland Formula E Season 5 2019 Minichamps 1:18
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast documents Oliver Rowland's Nissan IM02 from Formula E's fifth season, an early chapter of Nissan's move into electric open-wheel racing after taking over the e.dams entry. The diecast replica carries the correct e.dams livery from a growing category still establishing its collecting identity.
Formula E occupies a newer, less established corner of open-wheel collecting than Formula 1 or IndyCar, and Nissan's early seasons in the series document a manufacturer still finding its footing in electric racing.
Nissan's Arrival in Formula E
Nissan took over the e.dams Formula E entry from Renault heading into the fifth season of the all-electric championship, inheriting an established and competitive team structure while bringing its own manufacturer branding to the electric racing project for the first time. Oliver Rowland drove for the team that season, part of a Formula E grid built around manufacturer-backed teams competing on tight, temporary street circuits laid out through city centers rather than purpose-built racetracks, a format distinct from both Formula 1 and traditional IndyCar oval and road-course racing. Formula E's electric powertrains produce a different sound and a different racing rhythm than combustion-engine open-wheel cars, with strategic energy management playing a role that has no real equivalent in traditional motorsport, and that novelty is part of what has drawn a growing collector base to the category even as it remains smaller than the more established open-wheel disciplines.
Diecast Detail for a Gen2 Electric Racer
The Gen2-era Formula E car's enclosed wheel covers and prominent halo give it a visually distinct silhouette compared to an open-wheel F1 or IndyCar chassis, a shape built partly around the specific safety and aerodynamic requirements of racing on tight street circuits at lower top speeds than traditional open-wheel categories. Minichamps applies the e.dams livery with the same tampo-printing approach used across its other open-wheel diecast, keeping sponsor branding and number graphics flush against the bodywork rather than raised as a decal would be. The diecast body gives the model real weight, and the closed-wheel design actually simplifies some of the finer detail work compared to an open-wheel car's exposed suspension and tire assemblies, since there is less delicate exposed structure to render at this scale. For a collector building an electric-racing shelf from the category's early years, this Nissan-liveried e.dams car documents a specific, identifiable point in that history.
As Formula E's collector base continues to grow, an early Nissan e.dams car like this one carries the kind of historical specificity that becomes more valuable the longer the category's own history stretches.














