The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US said Daimler Trucks North America failed to recall vehicles in a timely fashion and comply with reporting requirements after the agency opened a probe in April 2018 of about 464,000 vehicles, reports the Reuters. As part of the settlement, Daimler Trucks agreed to develop and […]
Daimler AG’s commercial truck unit and Alphabet’s Waymo on Tuesday announced that they are forming a “broad, global, strategic partnership” to deploy fully driverless trucks. Daimler will integrate Waymo’s autonomous driving technology, widely considered to be among the best in the world, into its fleet of heavy-duty Freightliner Cascadia semi-trailer trucks. Class 8 trucks are
Daimler SA, local wing of the German truck and carmaker Daimler has promised to bring their latest electric truck, the Mercedes eActros LongHaul electric truck to South Africa, Engineering News reported. This could, potentially, happen in the next five years. Daimler Trucks Southern Africa product management head Christo Kleynhans was quoted saying “although the diesel
Two of Europe’s top truck manufacturers, Daimler Truck and the Volvo Group, have joined forces to develop and produce fuel cells for heavy-duty vehicles, the two companies announced this week. Daimler and Volvo signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish a joint venture in which Daimler would bundle all its fuel cell activities. In return,
