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Market launch in Japan: Mercedes-Benz Trucks heavy-duty transporter Arocs and Actros models now available
01 Sep 2025
Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”), in cooperation with its partner Y-Engineering Company Ltd. (“Y-Engineering”), announces the launch of t…
Ceremonial handover of the first twenty eActros 600 trucks to Swiss customers
01 Sep 2025
With the motto “Electrifying Moment,” Daimler Truck Switzerland recently celebrated a milestone in electric mobility in Brunnen, Switzerland, a…
Team Buses in the Bundesliga – A Trusted Partner
22 Aug 2025
Daimler Buses plays with a numerical advantage. More than half of the football Bundesliga clubs will be using a vehicle from the Setra or Mercedes…
Master of elements: Lünen fire department equipped with Unimog for fires, floods and storms
21 Aug 2025
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Daimler Buses supplies electric bus charging infrastructure and ten eCitaro city buses to Stadtwerke Bonn
21 Aug 2025
An electric summer dream in Bonn becomes reality: Daimler Buses has delivered ten battery-electric Mercedes Benz eCitaro city buses with a length o…
Bayer relies on e-mobility
21 Aug 2025
The bus company Bayer from Ehingen is adding five Mercedes‑Benz eCitaro buses to its fleet. With the all-electric city buses, the company is now …
75th Atego on its 75th birthday: Germany-wide handover of equipment trucks to THW in full gear
21 Aug 2025
The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) recently received the 75th Atego equipment truck based on the Mercedes-Benz Atego – in line…
Full charge for the future: the first eActros 600 on the road in Europe’s fleets
14 Aug 2025
The battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 continues to gain momentum in Europe. From Germany to Norway to Italy, from France to Romania – in…
Daimler Truck Financial Services launches eService Leasing in Germany
13 Aug 2025
As of August 11, 2025, Daimler Truck Financial Services Germany (DTFSD) will expand its product portfolio with the new eService Leasing. The offer …
New UNI-TOUCH operating system in daily use: Another Unimog implement carrier joins the Wertheim vehicle fleet
07 Aug 2025
The Wertheim municipal building yard recently put a Unimog U 327 with the new UNI-TOUCH operating system into service.…
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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?
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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.
