Urban Mobility
Stuttgart, October 20, 2016. The mobility app of Daimler subsidiary moovel Group GmbH won the German Mobility Award last night at an awards ceremony hosted by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. This makes moovel one of ten archetypal projects honored for its intelligent mobility solution. This was the first time the award has been presented. “moovel is
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The Bloomberg reporter commented on Zetsche’s newfound Silicon Valley ‘tech-look’ — complete with jeans and sneakers. The “interesting” new comments mentioned above were made by Zetsche in an interview with Bloomberg. EV Annex provides more: Zetsch commented that, ‘We are seeing the digital world taking possession of the automotive world.’ Asked if Tesla is the key competitor in the luxury
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — car2go announced today that the world’s largest one-way carsharing service has crossed the two million global member milestone. car2go N.A. is the largest flexible one-way carsharing service in North America with 800,000 members. The service also boasts more than 1.1 million members across Europe and 100,000 members in Chongqing since car2go launched its
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PARIS – The rise of new trends like car sharing and autonomous driving may usurp sales volume as a benchmark for measuring success in the auto industry, the head of marketing and sales at Mercedes-Benz, said on Thursday. Daimler’s Mercedes brand is on track to overtake German rival BMW this year as the biggest seller of luxury cars globally, earlier
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Germany’s Daimler AG plans to sell Mercedes-Benz branded all-electric battery cars in China, its China chief said on Wednesday, as the automaker capitalizes on government initiatives aimed at growing the market for new-energy vehicles (NEVs). Hubertus Troska said the government’s push, which involves tax breaks and other policy support, helped the number of NEVs sold last year surpass 300,000, making
Read moreBeijing – Daimler held its first China Hackathon in Beijing on September 3rd and 4th. A total of 75 participants were invited to develop creative ideas and code prototypes related to automotive e-commerce within a given timeframe of 26 hours. The event was aimed at students, graduates and experts in the fields of IT, software engineering and computer science. Hubertus
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Daimler’s Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche is sweeping away layers of bureaucracy and encouraging a more experimental approach to new products. He has also asked 144 employees to generate new leadership ideas, according to sources at the German luxury automaker. FRANKFURT, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler is embracing Silicon Valley management techniques in a drive to speed up decision
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Denza, a Chinese brand co-owned by BYD and Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler, annouce the first long range, mass market Electric Car. Denza400 is based on the last generation of the Mercedes B-Class, a compact electric motor generating 181 horsepower and 221 pound-feet of instant torque, and a 62kWh battery pack mounted under the passenger compartment. The pack stores enough juice to give the 400
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FRANKFURT, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Daimler’s top electric motors development executive, Harald Kroeger, is joining auto supplier Robert Bosch, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as a battle to hire leading talents in the sector heats up. German carmakers are investing heavily in electric cars, a segment once neglected by the industry as customers shunned their limited operating
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On Friday, Reuters reported Volkswagen is in early talks with German solar power equipment maker SMA Solar about working together, the companies said, as the automaker pushes ambitious electric car plans to overcome its diesel emissions scandal. SMA Solar, which makes inverters designed for home storage systems, declined to comment on the specifics of the talks. The company is already cooperating with
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