In an upfront session, Raghavendra Vaidya, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, DTICI speaks to Ashish Bhatia about the innovation centre as the nerve centre for cracking complex problems at Daimler Truck AG, globally. Q. What compelled the commissioning of an innovation centre outside Germany when Mercedes Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI) was to an extent looking at trucks?[Read More…]
Daimler Truck Innovation Center India has commenced operations. Ashish Bhatia looks into the largest Daimler Truck AG centre outside Germany, acting on crucial fronts of mobility. Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTIC) in Bengaluru has commenced operations. It is the most significant innovation and development centre outside Germany for Daimler Truck AG as a captive unit with ~1300 skilled engineers.[Read More…]
Mercedes-Benz India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with the Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University(DSEU) to provide a one-year Advanced Diploma in Automotive Mechatronics course(ADAM). It falls in line with the ‘Skill India’ initiative of the Government. The course will fulfil the requirement for superlative service in the automotive sector and students will have hands-on experience of the latest tools[Read More…]
Press Release Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) today announced the launch of ‘BharatBenz Exchange’, its new offer to the used commercial vehicle segment. By leveraging its growing customer base and nation-wide dealer network, BharatBenz Exchange will supplement its existing new vehicle sales model by offering an exchange platform where customers can exchange their used vehicles of any brand for new[Read More…]
Daimler Financial Services (DFS), the captive finance arm of Daimler AG, announced the appointment of Fred Weick as the new Managing Director of Daimler Financial Services India (DFSI). Established in 2011, DFSI was originally helmed by Sidhartha Nair, who has since moved on to a new role within the DFS group. Nair is now the Head of Strategy for the[Read More…]
Auto components maker Rajsriya Automotive Industries Private Limited today inaugurated its powder coating facility at its Sriperumbudur plant. Situated at its sixth facility, the powder coating plant was inaugurated by the Managing Director of Wabco India, P Kaniappan. The Managing Director of Rajsriya Group, P S Govindachari said the new plant with an installed capacity to coat up to 30,000[Read More…]
Erich Nesselhauf has been involved in the Daimler India Commercial Vehicles’ greenfield project from 2008 and built the entire supplier base for the company, achieving a localisation of 85% for BharatBenz trucks at the start of production in 2012. Recently he was elevated as the Managing Director & CEO of the company. He shared his views with T Murrali on[Read More…]
Daimler Financial Services India Pvt. Ltd. (DFSI), a 100% subsidiary of Daimler AG celebrates its 3rd anniversary in India. DFSI offers a full range of financing and insurance solutions to dealers & customers of Mercedes-Benz India & Daimler India Commercial Vehicles. It is the only captive financial services provider offering an Operating Lease solution to customers in the premium car segment.[Read More…]
One of the next steps on the way to perfect electric drive and plug-in hybrid vehicles is wireless charging. Daimler and BMW have now agreed on jointly developing and implementing one common technology. Wireless charging of the battery will make the handling of electric drive and plug-in hybrid vehicles even easier. Mercedes-Benz will commence fleet testing of this “unplugged” technology with[Read More…]
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), the wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany along with Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, Japan (MFTBC), a Daimler Company, under Daimler Trucks Asia, rolled out its first Left-Hand Drive (LHD) FUSO trucks for the export markets at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Oragadam. The first heavy-duty truck – the FUSO[Read More…]
