Jean-Eric Vergne stormed to pole position at the inaugural Bern E-Prix, beating Jaguar Racing's Mitch Evans to the fastest time of the session to secure three bonus championship points.
Completing his initial qualifying run in Group 1, Vergne ended the group qualifying stages as the second fastest driver, with Jaguar's Evans securing the fastest time initially, lapping the 2.75km-long Bern Street Circuit in 1m 18.897s.
With Evans and Vergne forming first and second, the pair were joined in Super Pole by Mahindra Racing's Pascal Wehrlein, home hero Sebastien Buemi, rookie Maximilian Gunther and Briton Sam Bird.
As the slowest driver inside the top six, Bird opened up proceedings in Super Pole, completing his sole run of the session in 1m 19.536s to lay down a benchmark time to beat.
As the second runner of the session, Gunther quickly beat Bird's best efforts, bettering the Briton's lap time by 0.165s to claim provisional pole position.
With supreme acceleration out of corners in his Nissan IM01, Buemi then beat Gunther's best lap to claim provisional pole position for himself, completing a 1m 19.164s lap.
FP2 pacesetter Wehrlein failed to match Buemi in his sole 250kW run, however, after demonstrating his pace by being the sole Group 1 runner to secure a spot inside Super Pole, Vergne quickly beat Buemi's time, going purple by 0.351s.
As the final runner of the session, Evans was the only driver standing between Vergne and pole position, however, with the driver failing to match the Frenchman in sectors 1 and 2, second place was the most that the Kiwi could hope for, leaving Vergne in pole position.
With Vergne in pole position and Evans in second, Buemi ended qualifying with the third fastest time while Wehrlein was fourth, completing the second row of the grid for Mahindra Racing with Gunther and Bird completing row three for GEOX Dragon and Envision Virgin Racing.
Missing out on a spot inside Super Pole, Audi's Daniel Abt was seventh in qualifying while Andre Lotterer was eighth in the second DS Techeetah car after completing his initial qualifying run in Group 1.
Championship contender Robin Frijns qualified in ninth place in the second Envision Virgin entry while Alex Lynn completed the top 10, unable to match Evans' pace in the second Jaguar.
Jerome d'Ambrosio missed out on the top 10, qualifying in 11th place in the second Mahindra M5Electro while Felipe Massa followed the Belgian in 12th as the highest-placed Venturi driver.
Despite demonstrating pace in first and second practice, Oliver Rowland only managed 13th place in the second Nissan e.dams car with Jose Maria Lopez and Stoffel Vandoorne completing the top 15.
Gary Paffett was 16th in the second HWA Racelab entry, qualifying ahead of BMW i Andretti Motorsport's Alexander Sims, with the German marque struggling for pace in the Swiss capital with Antonio Felix da Costa only managing to qualify in 20th.
Edoardo Mortara and Lucas di Grassi split the two BMW drivers in 18th and 19th while NIO Formula E completed the field, with Tom Dillmann finding an advantage over Oliver Turvey to out-qualify the Cumbrian for the 11th race of the 2018/19 campaign.
The Bern E-Prix will take place later today at 18:04 local time.
