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Feb 11, 2020 Motorsports
Ferrari F1 team shows off its new SF1000 car with operatic flair

'We have been as extreme in all the concepts as we could'

Ferrari showed off their 2020 Formula One car with a theatrical show of pride and passion on Tuesday, assuring success-starved fans that it was also very different under the skin to last year's model. The SF1000, marking the Italian team's 1,000th race that comes up this year, is the car Ferrari hope can end six years of Mercedes domination and dash Lewis Hamilton's bid to equal Michael Schumacher's record seven titles. If the red machine looked superficially similar under the stage lights to

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Feb 11, 2020 Followup
Man killed in Tesla crash had complained about Autopilot

He said it would malfunction in the area where the crash happened

An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway had complained before his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system would malfunction in the area where the crash happened. The complaints were detailed in a trove of documents released Tuesday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the March, 2018 crash that killed engineer Walter Huang. The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his

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Feb 11, 2020 Green
VW, Daimler push for more 'sustainable' lithium in Chile

Dry, fragile ecosystem home to world's top two producers

German automakers Volkswagen and Daimler have launched a study to push for more "sustainable" lithium mining in Chile, according to lobbyist filings reviewed by Reuters, a sign of growing supply chain concerns ahead of an expected electric vehicle boom. Chile's Atacama salt flat is by far the biggest source of supply of the ultralight battery metal in South America's so-called "lithium triangle." The region, whose fragile ecosystem relies on a limited water supply, is hom

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