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From track to road: How DS Automobiles uses motorsport to enhance its production vehicles

Since its creation in 2014, DS Automobiles has embraced the motto of “spirit of avant-garde,” using motorsport as a true innovation laboratory to benefit its production vehicles.

Considered a technological accelerator, motorsport offers an extreme environment to test and refine, in real-world conditions, materials, components, and processes that will ultimately equip - albeit in a modified form - the brand’s future models. The French manufacturer particularly benefits from its commitment to the Formula E world championship, in which it has already secured four titles (two drivers’ and two teams’) in 10 seasons. In this context, several of its hybrid or electric models have already drawn directly from what the brand has learned through competition.

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