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First UPS US delivery eBike debuts in Portland, Oregon

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This new electrically-assisted tricycle began delivering packages in Portland, Oregon, on 21 November 21. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. The success of this pilot program was first demonstrated in 2012 in collaboration with the city of Hamburg, Germany. Click to enlarge.

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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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Since 2018, the E-Mobility Group has bundled Daimler Trucks & Buses’ global know-how in the field of e-mobility and now defines the strategy for electric components and products across brands and segments. Global electric truck portfolio at Daimler Trucks.

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Daimler Trucks establishes global organization for highly automated driving

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Daimler Trucks is establishing the Autonomous Technology Group as a global organization for automated driving, bringing together its worldwide expertise and activities, as of 1 June. The newly established Autonomous Technology Group is part of Daimler Trucks’ global effort to put highly automated trucks onto the roads within a decade.

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Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics expand public road testing in the US for automated truck technology

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Together with Torc, Daimler Trucks’ global organization for automated truck driving brings together its worldwide experience and expertise. The Autonomous Technology Group has a global reach with experts working in various locations throughout the company’s worldwide development network located in Portland and Blacksburg in the U.S.

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Daimler developing battery-electric version of Econic HD truck; customer testing in 2021, series production in 2022

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With our global platform strategy, we are applying uniform technologies and vehicle architectures also for electric vehicles worldwide, and can accelerate development enormously through synergies. The E-Mobility Group is developing a globally uniform electric architecture – analogous to the global platform strategy for conventional vehicles.

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Daimler electric trucks & buses log more than 7M customer kilometers

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Thanks to our global presence, customers all over the world are testing various vehicle concepts in diverse practical applications. In the United States, the heavy-duty eCascadia and the medium-duty eM2 were premiered in Portland in June 2018. This motivated us to place electric trucks in the hands of customers at an early stage.

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Daimler Trucks to invest €500M in highly automated trucks; stepping away from platooning, shooting for L4 automation

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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimler Trucks announced that it will invest €500 million (around US$570 million) over the next years and create more than 200 new jobs in its global push to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road within a decade.

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