BRIXWORTH, England — Mercedes-Benz has engaged its Formula One team in the engineering process to build vastly more efficient mass-market electric vehicles, slashing development times by a quarter or more as it jump starts efforts to keep pace with Tesla.
F1 technology has always eventually bled over into mass-market vehicles. But Mercedes’ F1 collaboration to build more efficient EVs faster is unprecedented because it embeds that racing mindset and technological expertise…
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