Championship leader Jean-Eric Vergne will start from the very back of the grid for Saturday's New York ePrix after race control deleted his qualifying laptime, meanwhile Sebastian Buemi will start from pole position after topping the Super Pole session.
Buemi's time of 1:13.911 was more than half a second quicker than second-placed Mitch Evans, himself half a second up on third-placed Nicolas Prost.
Jerome d'Ambrosio starts fourth ahead of Audi's Daniel Abt who went wide on his Super Pole run and lost well over a second and also compromised the remainder of his lap as the dust off the racing line coated his tyres.
The race could see the title decided, although that doesn't seem as likely now given the disqualification of Techeetah's drivers.
Both Andre Lotterer and Vergne fell foul of the stewards and both were relegated to the back of the pack and will therefore start 19th and 20th respectively, behind an injured Oliver Turvey who failed to participate in the session and it's unclear if the Briton will take part in the race – which could therefore promote the Techeetah pair.
Techeetah team boss Mark Preston explained that a coding change caught them out: "Incredibly disappointing for both drivers," he said. "We came here trying to be super clean and super reliable. We made a small update to the code for reliability reasons and that's caught us out. We'll soldier on and see how we get on in the race."
Nelson Piquet narrowly missed out on a Super Pole spot, as did Jose Maria Lopez who was just 0.014 shy of Piquet's time in seventh.
Vergne's title-rival Sam Bird will start a lowly 14th behind his DS Virgin Racing team-mate Alex Lynn.
Sixth to 16th was covered by just over half a second, whilst Stephane Sarrazin was 11 seconds adrift after he made contact with the wall, but was able to dislodge his Andretti car although heavy frontal damage meant he crawled over the line to claim 17th.
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