Mercedes-Benz is aiming for hydrogen for the future of long distance transport. Today the German truck brand presented a hydrogen Actros with a range of 1000 kilometer on one tank of Hydrogen. The Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck is a step towards serial production. Mercedes hopes to start testing on public roads before the end of the…… Continue Reading
Daimler Truck AG and Cummins Inc. announce a global plan for the development of medium-duty commercial vehicle engines. Both companies have signed a global strategic partnership. The agreement involves the building of a Cummins engine plant within the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim campus where medium duty engines will be built that comply with the Euro VII emissions…… Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz introduces the Actros F. This is a budget Actros for costumers who need a basic truck without all the advanced systems in the new Actros series. The Actros F is equiped with a complete new cab that is 250 cm wide, but lower placed over the engine. Therefor the F has a small engine…… Continue Reading
Daimler Trucks presents technology strategy for electrification – world premiere of Mercedes-Benz fuel-cell concept truck The Mercedes-Benz GenH2 truck is a fuel cell truck with a range up to 1000 km. Customer trials will start in 2023 and the start of series production is planned in the second half of this decade. The styling of…… Continue Reading
Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer, achieved one of the best sales years in its history in 2018: Based on initial data, unit sales of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands increased to well over 500,000 vehicles in 2018 Read all about it by clicking here!… Continue Reading
After more than 20 years in service a part of the fleet of Mercedes G Class vehicles of the Dutch Army is replaced. The new 4×4 vehicles are based on the G- Class 300 CDI models. Over a period of three years Mercedes is delivering 515 new vehicles in different versions.… Continue Reading
The new Mercedes-Benz Actros is going to be presented in a few weeks but the first details are already caught by our Iepieleaks spy squad. The truck on the photo still has the outside shape as we know it but that could be to mislead us. On the, very small (sorry for that) photo we…… Continue Reading
Here are some photo’s that our friends made on the Autobahn last week. What looks like a normal Actros is in fact the latest model. Check the mirrors, they are gone! Also the LED tail lights are new. The old grill could be mounted just to fool us, probably there is some new styling as…… Continue Reading
Daimler has introduced the Econic in the USA under the Freightliner brand. The low entry cab of the Econic is the ideal vehicle for the typical American way of collecting garbaged, over the cab. The biggest difference with the European Mercedes-Benz version is the engine. Instead of the OM 936 LA the Freightliner EconicSD has the…… Continue Reading
This photo we found on social media and to be honest, we don’t even know if it is real or a photoshop. It does look great tough, this streched Mercedes-Benz Actros. We have seen streched Scania, Volvo and DAF cabs in the past but this is also a very good idea. Now let’s find out…… Continue Reading
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