The Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG have now a signed binding agreement for a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize fuel-cell systems for use in heavy-duty trucks as the primary focus, as well as other applications. The ambition of both partners is to make the new company a leading global manufacturer of fuel-cells,…… 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
Daimler Trucks reaches the mark of 50.000 vehicles sold in the US with its bestseller Freightliner New Cascadia since production started in January 2017. The 50.000th New Cascadia was handed over to the customer Cargo Transporters (Claremont, North Carolina). Currently, Cargo Transporters operates more than 550 Freightliner trucks, now including over 120 New Cascadia. The…… Continue Reading
In BIGtruck international magazine we have a driving impression of the latest Actros 1845. We drove this truck in Portugal where Mercedes introduced all the new small improvements that add up to fuel savings up to 6%. Click here to read the story and the watch the video in BIGtruck online magazine international.… Continue Reading
At the commercial vehicles exhibition COMTRANS 2017, KAMAZ showed a prototype of a new heavy duty tractor called KAMAZ 54901. We did show the truck before but this picture of the truck in the real world gives a better impression. The truck has the Actros cab with a new designed grille. KAMAZ plans to start…… Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz is producing a small series of the all- electric Urban eTruck this year. The trucks are being build for different customers in Europe. The 25 ton truck has a payload of 12,8 ton and a range up to 200 km, wich would be good for distribution. Stefan Buchner, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks: “Following the…… Continue Reading
During the third Guangzhou International Commercial Vehicle Exhibition the Auman EST won the very first ‘Chinese Truck of the Year’ award ever. The Auman EST is the latest heavy-duty truck model from Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co., Ltd. (BFDA), which extends the portfolio of locally manufactured trucks. Hereby, Daimler Trucks once again strengthens its global…… Continue Reading
At the Hoover Dam in American State of Nevada, Daimler has put the first autonomous truck on the road. The State of Nevada granted this truck a special licenseplate to help Daimler with further development of this project. At the Mid American Trucking Show, Daimlers US truck division Freightliner already showed an Innovation Truck, which…… Continue Reading
Mercedes just launched a new van on the American market. It is the Vito which will be named Metris in the US. After the success of the Sprinter, that started life overthere as a Dodge, Mercedes has more than enough confidence to try out the Vito there as well. Some adaptions have to made of…… Continue Reading
The 2015 Dakar was again dominated by the Russian Kamaz team. Funny is that these trucks are ‘Liebherr powered’ and that is also what is written on the side of the truck. For the regulations that is not possible, because the components on a rallytruck must be from production trucks. Now Liebherr does not produce…… Continue Reading
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