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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…

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Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 28, 2023, 16:28 ISTElectric Vehicles (Photo: IANS)Rizon will offer Class 4 and 5 trucks with lithium iron phosphate battery technology and start production in the third quarter of 2023Commercial vehicle maker Daimler Truck on Thursday launched Rizon, a medium-duty electric truck brand for the US, aiming to take on the likes of Isuzu Motors Ltd and Toyota Motor Corp’s truck and bus unit Hino Motors Ltd.Truck makers have long anticipated a shift to electric vehicles (EVs) with…

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) today announced a joint venture with NextEra Energy and BlackRock Alternatives in which they’ll build EV charging infrastructure across the US for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The joint venture is called Greenlane, and Daimler, NextEra, and BlackRock are going to design, develop, install, and operate a US-wide, EV public charging and hydrogen fueling network for medium- and heavy-duty battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks. John O’Leary,…

<!----> Daimler has reported its annual net profit (2020) up by 48% to EUR4 billion (2019: EUR2.7 billion). Lower vehicle sales due to the pandemic were more than offset by lower costs and cash preservation measures. The company also said it expects sales, revenues and operating profit (EBIT) in 2021 to…

Raghavendra Vaidya, MD & CEO, Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTICI).If a model from any of Daimler Trucks’ 6 brands faces a major snag, say in a North American market, an engineering team in Bengaluru may receive a not-so-pleasant call. But, quite likely, the team will celebrate if the truck avoided a major accident thanks to the intervention of the lane keeping assist system in the vehicle developed by it at the Daimler Truck Innovation Center…

<!----> Siemens Digital Industries Software and Daimler Truck AG have announced a new collaboration to implement a digital engineering platform built using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services. The companies say the new platform will enable…

<!----> Daimler Truck and Torc are testing SAE Level 4 autonomous Freightliner Cascadia trucks Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck and a self proclaimed “pioneer in commercialising self-driving vehicle technology”, announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Algolux “for its…

<!----> Daimler Truck is to build a new logistics hub – the Global Parts Centre – in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt. Future parts deliveries will be made from this central location, eliminating additional transport routes and cutting the time until parts are available. The facility is…

Electric vehicle batterymaker Italvolt will license fast-charging battery technology from Israeli start-up StoreDot to manufacture lithium-ion batteries at a plant it is raising funds to build in Italy, the companies said. Italvolt will ringfence a minimum amount of the batteries produced at the plant for StoreDot's business and customers, Italvolt's statement said, without specifying the amount. StoreDot, whose investors include the truck division of then Daimler, now Mercedes-Benz, BP, VinFast, Volvo, Polestar and…