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Bus operators find Setra comfort impressive
13 Aug 2026
Ludwig Arzt Omnibusverkehr e.K., Ehrlich Touristik GmbH & Co. KG, and the norwegian travel operator Jenssen Mobility are renewing their fleets with…
Daimler Truck Appoints Tobias Brandis as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
12 Aug 2026
Daimler Truck has appointed Dr. Tobias Brandis as new Chief Legal and Compliance Officer effective October 1, 2026. In this role, he will assume re…
Mercedes-Benz Safety Truck and Safety Coach in action for greater road safety for children
11 Aug 2026
This year, Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Daimler Buses are placing children at the center of their road safety activities. The two Daimler Truck segment…
Daimler Truck raises full-year 2026 guidance on improved outlook for Trucks North America
07 Aug 2026
Daimler Truck Holding AG (“Daimler Truck”) reported its second-quarter 2026 results and raised its full-year guidance for the 2026 financial ye…
Daimler Truck North America Plans to Build New U.S. Manufacturing Facility
07 Aug 2026
Daimler Truck North America LLC (“DTNA”), a segment of Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”), today announced plans to build a brand-new state…
Mercedes-Benz Trucks expands Remote App with parking search for truck drivers
06 Aug 2026
Finding available truck parking spaces remains one of the biggest challenges for long-haul drivers. Mercedes-Benz Trucks is therefore expanding its…
Daimler Truck, Volvo Group and Toyota Motor Corporation sign binding agreement for Toyota to join cellcentric as equal shareholder
27 Jul 2026
Daimler Truck AG (Daimler Truck), the Volvo Group (Volvo), cellcentric and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) have signed a binding agreement for To…
Daimler Truck Holding AG raises full-year guidance
22 Jul 2026
Daimler Truck Holding AG ("Daimler Truck") discloses preliminary and unaudited results for the second quarter of 2026 and raises its full-year guid…
Daimler Truck, Lambert Defence and Soframe join forces for Belgian Defence Tender
21 Jul 2026
Daimler Truck AG, Lambert Defence and Soframe signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing a framework for cooperation in response to th…
eActros 400 with Mechanical Power Take-Off: Mercedes-Benz Trucks delivers electric tipper tractor units to AVG Köln
21 Jul 2026
Mercedes-Benz Trucks has handed over three battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 400 trucks of the second model generation with ProCabin to AVG K�…
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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.
