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Daimler Truck Financial Services launches retail business in New Zealand
03 Oct 2025
Daimler Truck Financial Services (DTFS) continues its international growth course by launching customer financing in New-Zealand. With its market e…
Daimler Buses launches expansion of public charging stations
03 Oct 2025
Starting in 2026, Daimler Buses will install its own public charging stations for electric buses and coaches, focusing on high-traffic tourist dest…
Customization on wheels – Mercedes-Benz Custom Tailored Trucks celebrates its 25th anniversary
03 Oct 2025
For 25 years, the Mercedes-Benz Custom Tailored Trucks (CTT) business unit has been responsible for converting vehicles according to individual cus…
Mercedes-Benz Actros L ProCabin: Focus on Aerodynamics, Efficiency, and Driver Comfort
03 Oct 2025
Since its market launch in June 2021, the Actros L has represented the premium segment of heavy-duty trucks with diesel powertrains from Mercedes-B…
Mercedes-Benz Trucks presents the new eActros 400 based on the eActros 600 - numerous new variants available
03 Oct 2025
With its battery-electric eActros 600 long-haul truck, Mercedes-Benz Trucks has been producing a strong alternative to diesel trucks in series prod…
Daimler Buses Schweiz AG electrifies the bus depot of Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn SZU AG
03 Oct 2025
Daimler Buses Schweiz AG has received the order from Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn SZU AG (SZU) for the planning and implementation of the chargin…
Andrew Johnson succeeds Jörg Howe as Head of Global Communications & External Affairs Daimler Truck
26 Sep 2025
Andrew “Andy” Johnson (53), currently Head of Corporate Communications at Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), will succeed Jörg Howe as Head o…
Ready for takeoff: Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH is operating all-electric eCanter from Daimler Truck brand FUSO
26 Sep 2025
Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), the operating company of the capital city airport BER, is using a FUSO eCanter 7C18e 7.5t for its internal…
The Unimog for modern agriculture: three implement carriers at Agritechnica
24 Sep 2025
Agritechnica will open its doors in Hanover from November 9 to 15, 2025. As the world's leading trade fair for agricultural technology, it is consi…
European premiere in Belgium: Giant concrete pump on a 7-axle Mercedes-Benz Arocs
24 Sep 2025
Bonneux Machinery and Daimler Truck present an absolute novelty on the European market: the Bonneux Xanjer 6RZ73 concrete pump with a reach of up t…
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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.
