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For the first time, a truck was able to initiate maximum full-stop braking within the system limits. Leinfelden-Echterdingen: The vision of accident-free driving motivates Daimler Truck for all trucks and buses that are developed and produced in the group of companies and sold under the brands Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, FUSO, Setra, Thomas Built Buses, Western Star, Bharat Benz and RIZON. The company has set itself the objective of equipping at least 75 percent of the…

Top-end automakers are turning to India for their engineering needs. In the past year, Daimler Truck set up a new R&D hub in India, while Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have expanded their existing facilities. The worldwide shift towards electrification and autonomous vehicles is driving demand for software engineers, a largely untapped category for car makers until now. Work around electric batteries and hydrogen-powered fuel cells is being driven out of India, apart from the software and electronics that go inside the…

Tesla is planning to deliver its first all-electric semi-trucks to client PepsiCo this evening—about three years after the vehicle maker first indicated the big rigs would be available. The company announced in a tweet that it will stream the delivery live via Twitter at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) on Thursday, in a mysterious “event”—seemingly making good on an October promise to get the trucks to its first clients on Dec. 1. Elon Musk rolled up to a Tesla press event in an electric semi-truck all the way back in 2017. That…

Hydrogen fuel cell maker Loop Energy said that its latest cell system can deliver better fuel economy than a diesel engine at current price levels. The Burnaby, British Columbia-based company said that - based on a pan-European diesel cost of $1.91 per litre on September 5 and $10 per kg of hydrogen - a truck could travel just over 111 miles (179 km) on $100 worth of fuel using its new S1200 hydrogen fuel cell system versus a little over 109 miles for an equivalent diesel truck. Read Also As the auto industry makes the…