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Marcus Poppe to head Investor Relations and Treasury at Daimler Truck
04 Jul 2025
Daimler Truck appoints a key Finance position and will consolidate the Investor Relations and Treasury functions. Marcus Poppe will assume the role…
Fully electric for the dairy: first Belgian customer takes over the eActros 600
04 Jul 2025
Logistics company VM-Milktrans and its sister company Sovedo Logistics have received the first two of a total of six Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 in B…
French-German partnership in the defence sector: ARQUUS and Daimler Truck are joining forces
03 Jul 2025
The French military vehicle manufacturer ARQUUS and the German commercial vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck want to work closely together on a pro…
Letter of Intent signed: Daimler Truck becomes partner for vehicle assembly in Senegal
02 Jul 2025
Daimler Truck has signed a letter of intent on locally assembled trucks together with the government of the Republic of Senegal and the company Glo…
Electric buses on the road to success: more than 2,500 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses in use by European transport companies
30 Jun 2025
The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro reaches a new milestone: More than 2,500 units of the low-floor electric bus have rolled off the production line in Mannh…
All-electric right to your doorstep: FUSO eCanter in use at logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss in Croatia
26 Jun 2025
Two all-electric FUSO eCanter trucks are now joining the Croatian fleet of Gebrüder Weiss, a global logistics provider headquartered in Austria. T…
Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks takes part at the “Day of the German Armed Forces”
25 Jun 2025
Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks is contributing to this year's “Day of the German Armed Forces” on June 28, 2025 at the military training area in …
Passion you can touch: Experience Mercedes-Benz Trucks live at the Nürburgring
13 Jun 2025
From July 11 to 13, 2025, the legendary Nürburgring will become a center for commercial vehicle enthusiasts: Mercedes Benz Trucks invites you to a…
Daimler Buses supplies 111 buses of the Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands to Busitalia
12 Jun 2025
Daimler Buses will start delivering 111 modern Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses to Busitalia in June 2025. Busitalia is a company of Trenitalia, which…
Strong performance in Poland: New TruckTraining Center opens - ShowTruck campaign gets underway!
11 Jun 2025
In May, Daimler Truck Poland opened a new training center in Nadarzyn near Warsaw. The Truck Training Center is mainly used for the training and fu…
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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
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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?
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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.
