By T Murrali: Mercedes-Benz Vans is set to enhance the eDrive@VANs strategy with fuel cell. Using the example of a semi-integrated motorhome, the Concept Sprinter F-CELL, exhibited at Daimler Product Showcase at Hannover airport, a day before the recently concluded IAA 2018 show, illustrated the full breadth of the characteristic benefits of a fuel cell […]
Transworld Technology, specialists in wireless data acquisition and analytics, designs and builds its own smart Internet-of-things (IoT) products and devices for commercial vehicle fleet management and to enhance their efficiency and productivity. “We are an end-to-end solution provider for data acquisition and software management. We generate business intelligence to act on the results of that […]
By T Murrali: Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd (DICV), the wholly-owned subsidiary of the German company Daimler AG, is providing variety of solutions globally through its parent company. Earlier the company manufactured trucks only for India, and then started exporting CKDs followed by components. Now it is systems and transmissions that would be followed […]
Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen, Germany has started the production of the first new generation C-Class Saloon. The new C-Class will be produced in four plants on four continents. Following the lead plant Bremen the plants in Tuscaloosa (USA), East London (South Africa) and Beijing (China) gradually start production of the high-volume model. The global production […]
Mercedes-Benz has rolled-out the 100,000th car for the Indian market from the assembly line of Mercedes-Benz’s world-class manufacturing facility at Chakan, Maharashtra. Roland Folger, Managing Director and CEO, Mercedes-Benz India and Piyush Arora, Executive Director, Operations, Mercedes-Benz India have flagged off the vehicle. “With the growing demand of Mercedes-Benz products, a spiralling aspiration among young […]
Mercedes-Benz has inaugurated a refurbished sales facility-Benchmark Cars- in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Michael Jopp, VP Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz India and Sanjay Thakker, Chairman, Benchmark Cars have jointly opened the new outlet. The state-of-the-art luxury facility is spread across 25,000 sqft. Mercedes-Benz has now 93 outlets across 45 cities in the country. “We have been […]
The ‘Innovation Factory‘ at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant: the Site Manager of the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant Michael Bauer (left) and Ergun Lümali, Chairman of the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Works Council (right) are celebrating the start of production of the compact SUV GLA with the team. “With the GLA, the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant is producing a compact […]
Technologically at the cutting edge and fully connected: Daimler Trucks is launching a new era of truck production in Brazil, involving systematic implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts. A completely new type of truck assembly line has now commenced operation at the Brazilian Sao Bernardo do Campo plant of Daimler subsidiary Mercedes-Benz do Brasil. The application […]
Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz has launched the enhanced version of Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The new S- Class 350 d is India’s first ‘BS VI compliant– Made in India, for India’, vehicle, two years ahead of the regulation. The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class has the latest generation of radar-based driving assistance systems that reduce the risk of accidents and […]
The year 2017 was the successful business year for Daimler. To mark this achievement, the company has given away highest profit-sharing bonus in its history. Board of Management and General Works Council decided to pay entitled tariff-scale employees a bonus up to 5,700 euros. The bonus applies to roughly 130,000 entitled tariff-scale employees in Germany, […]
