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Why this truck from Mercedes-Benz can save lives – new “Safety Truck” based on the eActros 600
19 Nov 2025
Preventing accidents altogether or at least mitigating their consequences has always been a top priority for Mercedes-Benz Trucks across all model …
Big vehicles, big responsibility: Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Daimler Buses are driving road safety in the electric era
19 Nov 2025
The Daimler Truck divisions Mercedes Benz Trucks and Daimler Buses are supporting the new nationwide initiative “Deutschland blickt’s” (“Ge…
Over 1,000 kilometers a day: the eActros 600 on the road in Swedish long-haul transport
14 Nov 2025
The fact that electric trucks can be used economically in long-distance transport is demonstrated by the company WLX WeLink Express in Malmö, Swed…
My PartsHub: new online store for spare parts
13 Nov 2025
With its new online shop “My PartsHub,” Daimler Truck is providing its customers, dealers, and workshops with a central platform for digital pa…
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles under new leadership
13 Nov 2025
Daimler Truck´s commercial vehicle business in India under new leadership: Torsten Schmidt (53), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Merced…
A stretch limousine for local transport
13 Nov 2025
At the end of October, Omnibusverkehr Spillmann GmbH took delivery of an extraordinary service bus at the Mannheim omnibus plant. Managing Director…
Fuel-cell trucks in real-life operations: Daimler Truck enters second trial phase with five additional partners
13 Nov 2025
Following the completion of initial customer trials of its Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Trucks, Daimler Truck is now moving into the second phase with five …
Mornings remain quiet in Karlsruhe – 18 new battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eEconic vehicles for waste disposal
12 Nov 2025
The “Team Sauberes Karlsruhe” (TSK, = “Clean Karlsruhe Team”) recently added seven new Mercedes-Benz eEconic electric waste collection vehi…
Line of sight, fatigue, surroundings: Mercedes-Benz Trucks expands assistance systems for greater safety from 2026
12 Nov 2025
Starting in February 2026, Mercedes-Benz Trucks will be expanding its driver assistance systems with new functions that already comply with upcomin…
Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 hits the road for Amazon in the UK
11 Nov 2025
Mercedes-Benz Trucks is helping Amazon reshape parcel delivery in the UK . Earlier this year, the company placed its largest-ever order: more than …
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
