The 45-lap race was won by Audi Sport ABT driver Lucas di Grassi starting from second position.

Sam Bird won the pole position by posting the fastest lap in qualifying but was passed by di Grassi at the start due to a mapping problem that gave him excess wheelspin.

In the Teams' Championship, e.Dams-Renault grew their lead over Audi Sport ABT by one point and Virgin drew closer to Dragon in third with three rounds left in the season.

Ma was the second driver that Aguri nominated to drive for them outside of reasons of force majeure after Duran replaced Nathanaël Berthon earlier in the season.

[6] In the 1980s, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) president Jean Todt and four-time Formula One World Champion Alain Prost were part of a group that lobbied politicians for a Formula One race in the streets of the French capital of Paris but were unsuccessful due to concerns over noise and potential damage to the local infrastructure.

[8] The plan for a race in Paris was revived in 2014 when Formula E began preparations with the city's mayor and environmentalist Anne Hidalgo, who entered into discussions with series representatives about such an event occurring.

Series officials later studied more than twenty areas in and outside of Paris before settling on the Les Invalides building complex in the 7th arrondissement, which they felt was best suited for motor racing.

[9] These plans were publicly revealed to Le Parisien in September 2014 by Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag who wanted the race to be the first in the 2015–16 season.

[10] The ePrix was announced as part of the provisional calendar by the FIA World Motor Sport Council in July 2015,[11] and was officially confirmed three months later as the seventh of ten single-seater electric car rounds of the season.

[16] The layout of the Rodgrigo Nunes-designed 1.93 km (1.20 mi) 14-turn clockwise Circuit des Invalides was unveiled to the public at the Hôtel de Ville on 13 January 2016.

[19] The half-hour shakedown session on Friday afternoon was cancelled as the roads used by Formula E were not closed until later that evening for logistical reasons.

[20] Buemi used 200 kW (270 hp) of power to set the fastest lap of the first session, held in cold and cloudy weather, at 1 minute, 2.841 seconds, followed by di Grassi, Sarrazin, Bird, Mike Conway of Venturi, Loïc Duval for Dragon, Daniel Abt of Audi Sport ABT, the Mahindras of Bruno Senna and Nick Heidfeld, and NextEV's Nelson Piquet Jr.[21] During the session, where several drivers ventured off the circuit leaving turns one and eight, the session was red-flagged halfway through for d'Ambrosio who stopped into turn one with a battery management system failure and required extraction from the track.

Positions four to ten were occupied by Di Grassi, Sarrazin, Senna, António Félix da Costa for Aguri, Prost, Andretti's Robin Frijns and Abt.

Yellow flags were shown five minutes in after Sarrazin lost control of his car, and crashed under braking for turn eight, breaking his front-left suspension and front wing.

[19] Qualifying took place in cold ambient weather conditions of 12 °C (54 °F) which made it difficult for drivers to generate warmth into their tyres and brakes.

Félix da Costa was second fastest and Ma was group four's slowest competitor after twice avoiding a crash in the final two corners on his best lap.

[27][28][31] He was joined on the grid's front row by di Grassi who locked his brakes into a corner, missed an apex, and held the pole until the latter's lap.

Sarrazin was slow in the first third of the lap and took fourth while Prost struggled on the cold track and narrowly avoided striking the barrier at turn two to claim fifth.

[33] Behind Prost the rest of the grid lined up as Frijns, Turvey, Buemi, Piquet, Félix da Costa, d'Ambrosio, de Silvestro, Senna, Abt, Ma, Duval, Conway and Heidfeld.

[36][37] Bird spun his tyres due to a mapping problem and he lost the lead to di Grassi who was to the inside of him on the approach to the first corner and pushed him out wide.

[44] Despite competitors having difficulty getting heat into their tyres, the field avoided causing an incident on the tight track as the top five settled into their respective positions.

Duval had car setup trouble over the weekend but his day worsened when his gearbox failed on lap six and he stopped on the circuit to retire.

[43][44] The full course yellow procedure was necessitated on the next lap to allow for the recovery of Duval's car by marshals to a safe location.

[33][38][41] Bird drove onto the turn's run-off area and performed a swift U-turn to return to the track but he fell to sixth as Buemi inherited third.

[44][33] Going into the final turn, Ma was pushing hard when he lost control of the rear of his car at the exit of the corner and crashed into the left-hand wall.

"[49] Vergne spoke of his need to end a "negative spiral" by changing his mentality after being unable to match his teammate Bird for overall pace throughout the season and his results had been sub-par, "I never felt really comfortable with the car and the team has helped me a lot.

"[50] Third-placed Buemi said the cold air prevented him from heating his brakes and believed his car was the fastest overall despite being slower over a single lap, "We caught up to others and overtook so it shows that once everything is up to speed it's OK. We just have to work very hard up to the end of the season.

"[35] Bird was critical of his teammate Vergne over their battle for second during the first half of race, calling him "a mobile chicane" and believed he was the faster driver,[46] "It was enjoyable if he wasn't my team-mate.

I think Lucas (di Grassi) and Seb (Buemi) are a bit stronger this year let's hope we can finish the championship like this, score good points in every race.