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Toyota, Daimler Truck, Hino and Mitsubishi Fuso join forces

'It is hard to go at it alone. Working together is crucial.'

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Daimler to keep 35% stake as truck division goes solo

And Daimler will be renamed Mercedes-Benz Group AG to reflect focus on cars

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Daimler racks up huge profit as chip shortage boosts car prices

The auto industry continues to drive up consumer prices in general

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Daimler Truck chief predicts green trucks will slash jobs by 50% at some plants

'A fuel cell and a battery are far less complex than a diesel engine and a transmission'

Daimler Truck 'all in' on green energy as it targets costs

Aims for zero-emission vehicles to make up 60% of its sales by 2030, 100% by 2039

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Daimler and Volvo plan hydrogen fuel cell truck production in 2025

They call on European support for hydrogen infrastructure and policies

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Zero-emission vehicles will lead to thousands of job losses, says Daimler

Daimler Trucks chairman says EV powertrains take fewer people to build

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Daimler and Geely collaborate to develop 'a highly efficient modular engine'

Engine from the financially affiliated companies would be used in hybrids

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Daimler Trucks partners with Waymo to build self-driving semis

This gives Daimler access to Waymo's industry-leading autonomy tech

Two automotive giants are teaming up to bring self-driving semi-trucks to market. Under this deal, Waymo and Daimler Trucks are partnering to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck. This is Waymo's first deal in the freight business.

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Daimler rebounds after lockdowns, raises outlook as car sales recover

Full-year earnings could match last year's, as if the coronavirus hadn't happened

Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars and Freightliner trucks, saw third-quarter profit rebound as the company clamped down on costs and auto sales recovered after the coronavirus lockdowns of earlier in the year. The company raised its outlook for expected earnings. Highly profitable vehicles such as the GLA, GLB and GLS sport-utility vehicles boosted earnings, as did the economic recovery in China, said CFO Harald Wilhelm.

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Daimler CEO committed to F1, seeks to slash costs

'We have as little reason to step out of Formula One as Bayern Munich has to step out of football'

Mercedes owner Daimler is committed to Formula One but is working to slash costs and cut the environmental impact of motor racing, Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius on Wednesday. "We have as little reason to step out of Formula One as Bayern Munich has to step out of football," he said during a virtual roundtable discussion with journalists on Wednesday. The carmaker is developing a plan to make the sport emissions neutral, including through the use of synthetic fuels, and wants to improve the co

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Daimler to idle Alabama Mercedes assembly plant because of parts shortage

Suppliers in Mexico have not restarted from coronavirus shutdown

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Daimler's profit plunges 70% as coronavirus hammers sales

The company's shares have fallen 52% over the past year

German car and truck maker Daimler reported a plunge of nearly 70% in first-quarter operating profit on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic and warned that the cash flow it uses to pay dividends would fall this year. The maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles suffered as customers shunned car and truck showrooms during coronavirus lockdowns and analysts said the slide in Daimler's valuation over the past year put more pressure on it to deepen alliances with rivals. Daimler said preliminary adjus

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Daimler and Volvo could jointly develop internal combustion engines

Chinese automaker Geely owns Volvo and a holds a 10% stake in Daimler

Luxury German carmaker Daimler and Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely, are considering cooperating to cut the costs of developing combustion engines, a magazine reported on Sunday, citing unnamed company sources. The Automobilwoche weekly cited a Volvo manager as saying there were initial talks with Daimler, but no concrete plans, while a company spokesman said it was too early to talk about firm projects, although it was not excluding anybody. A Daimler spokesman said the company's

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Daimler is bringing electric school buses to Virginia

Thomas Built will supply 50 "Jouley" buses paid for by electric utility Dominion

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Daimler takes 'reality check' on robotaxi safety and earnings potential

Ensuring self-driving cars are safe in crowded urban areas is a bigger challenge than engineers had assumed

Daimler has taken a "reality check" on self-driving "robotaxis", acknowledging that making them safe is proving harder than first thought amid questions over their future earnings potential. Daimler would "rightsize" its spending level on robotaxis and that self-driving technology would more likely be applied to commercial vehicles for freight companies on long haul routes. Carmakers raced to develop self-driving vehicles after Google presented a prototype car in 2012, leading Daimler to devel

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Mercedes-Benz plans job cuts to save over a billion dollars by 2022

Management positions will be cut by around 10%

Tougher emissions rules will hit Daimler's profits in 2020 and 2021, prompting the German carmaker to seek more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in savings from cutting staff costs at its Mercedes-Benz business by the end of 2022, it said on Thursday. Daimler shares were down 2.3% in early trading at 52.17 euros, the biggest decline on Germany's DAX blue-chip index, which was down 0.3%. Management positions will be cut by around 10%, and company said it would also seek more than 300 million

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