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Connected from the first second: all new buses from Daimler Buses with digital services on the move
11 Mar 2025
From telematics for scheduling and passenger information to monitoring data for predictive maintenance, from fault warnings to data on the conditio…
Daimler Truck brand FUSO: all-electric eCanter convinces beverage retailer in daily home-delivery business
06 Mar 2025
The FUSO eCanter electric light-duty truck, which has been an integral part of the Daimler Truck electric product portfolio for years and is popula…
New safety feature from Mercedes-Benz Trucks: 10 questions and answers about Connected Traffic Warnings
06 Mar 2025
The new Connected Traffic Warnings function can help improve road safety by detecting and passing on hazard warnings. If the service is available i…
The new eIntouro successfully defies cold, ice and snow: Daimler Buses tests electric intercity bus in Finland
06 Mar 2025
Bus companies place the same demands on electrically powered buses as on their counterparts with conventional diesel engines. Even in difficult wea…
Universally popular – the Setra ComfortClass
27 Feb 2025
Höffmann Reisen GmbH from Vechta, Germany and Intertours ME Sarl from Switzerland rely on the high-decker coaches of the Setra ComfortClass. …
Quiet, efficient and comfortable: driver Ismet Dostović about the first Mercedes-Benz Actros L with ProCabin in Slovenia
26 Feb 2025
Freight forwarder Virnek from Slovenia Šoštanj was the first Slovenian transport company to add a Mercedes-Benz Actros L with the new ProCabin ca…
Daimler Truck obtains the electricity for its Brazilian production sites from a photovoltaic project
26 Feb 2025
Mercedes-Benz do Brasil announced its participation in the Dunamis photovoltaic power generation project, thereby taking the decisive step towards …
eActros 600 European tour in snow and ice: Electric trucks also drive efficiently in winter
25 Feb 2025
Mercedes-Benz Trucks has once again sent its two near-production prototypes of the eActros 600 on a testing tour through Northern Europe – but th…
Back at Retro Classics: Mercedes-Benz Trucks Classic with exhibits from the beginnings of the truck
24 Feb 2025
After a five-year break, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is again represented with an official stand at Retro Classics in Stuttgart this year. From February 2…
Happy Birthday Daimler Buses: 30 years of Mercedes-Benz and Setra buses under one roof
21 Feb 2025
Daimler Buses GmbH is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On February 23,1995, EvoBus GmbH was established by a merger of the former Daimler Benz AG …
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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.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
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