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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…
Daimler Truck receives major order from Bundeswehr's mobility service provider BwFuhrparkService
11 Jun 2025
Daimler Truck has won a major contract from BwFuhrparkService, the Bundeswehr's mobility service provider. The order comprises the delivery of a mi…
Daimler Truck, Mitsubishi Fuso, Hino and Toyota Motor Corporation conclude Definitive Agreements on integrating Mitsubishi Fuso and Hino Motors
10 Jun 2025
Tokyo/Japan and Leinfelden-Echterdingen/Germany – Daimler Truck AG (President and CEO: Karin Rådström, hereafter “Daimler Truck”) Mitsubish…
Career Kickoff at Daimler Truck: Application Launch for Apprenticeships and Dual Study Programs Starting in 2026
06 Jun 2025
The application phase for 2026 is open: Anyone who achieved their high school diploma and is interested in an apprenticeship or dual study program …
A big hello in Halberstadt: the eActros 600 reverses 30 kilometers on public roads to the Global Parts Center
05 Jun 2025
Yesterday, the new electric long-haul truck from Mercedes-Benz Trucks caused quite a stir: the eActros 600 covered the approx. 30 kilometers betwee…
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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.
