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Daimler Truck establishes semi-public charging network for trucks – first pilot customers successfully launched
11 Dec 2025
Daimler Truck is pushing ahead with the development of charging facilities for battery-electric trucks and is launching a semi-public charging netw…
Daimler Truck brand BharatBenz launches new heavy-duty bus for intercity traffic
11 Dec 2025
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles ("DICV"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG ("Daimler Truck"), introduces a new heavy-duty bus chassi…
Electric portfolio grows: Mercedes-Benz Trucks starts production of new eActros 400 generation at Wörth plant
10 Dec 2025
Mercedes-Benz Trucks is expanding its portfolio of battery-electric trucks: Series production of the second-generation eActros 400 began at the Wö…
Mercedes-Benz eCitaro Family by Daimler Buses Wins the German Sustainability Award 2026
05 Dec 2025
The Mercedes-Benz eCitaro family by Daimler Buses has been honored with the German Sustainability Award 2026 in the transformation field of climate…
New Setra Team Bus for Bulgarian Record Champion
04 Dec 2025
PFC Levski Sofia has taken delivery of a new team bus, a Setra S 517 HD. The vehicle from the Setra ComfortClass, which was equipped according to t…
Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics Select Innoviz Technologies as LiDAR Partner for Series Production of Level 4 Autonomous Trucks
04 Dec 2025
Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading Tier-1 direct supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR…
Drive system transition at Gimmler Reisen: Emission-free public transport is launched with new electric buses in Wetzlar, Hesse
04 Dec 2025
What began with a feasibility study around two years ago at Werner Gimmler Wetzlarer Verkehrsbetriebe und Reisebüro GmbH (Gimmler Reisen for short…
Emissions-free store deliveries by 2030: Lidl Austria relies on the eActros 600
28 Nov 2025
Lidl Austria is consistently driving its e-mobility offensive forward and, in addition to the14 battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 units al…
Rausch-Reisen picks up two new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo M from Daimler Buses in Neu-Ulm
28 Nov 2025
Rausch-Reisen Omnibustouristik GmbH (Rausch-Reisen for short) from Zörbig-Schortewitz in Saxony Anhalt has received two new Mercedes Benz Tourismo…
All-electric transport: Spanish logistics provider Transportes Ocón deploys 15 eCanter trucks from Daimler Truck brand FUSO
28 Nov 2025
The Spanish transport company Transportes Ocón is now deploying 15 fully electric FUSO eCanter light-duty trucks in its fleet. As part of its sust…
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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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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.
