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Audi introducing V2I Traffic Light Information service in Europe

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Audi is introducing the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service “Traffic Light Information” in Europe. From July, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt/Germany; further European cities will follow from 2020 onwards. With the Traffic Light Information function, drivers are more in control.

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

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As part of its electrification strategy, Daimler Trucks plans to offer electric vehicles in all its main sales regions by 2022: from the FUSO eCanter in the light-duty segment, the Freightliner eM2 in the medium-duty segment, and the Mercedes-Benz eActros and the Freightliner eCascadia in the heavy-duty segment. million miles).

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

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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. and in Stuttgart, Germany.

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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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The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty truck with a range of approximately 200 kilometers is in intensive use with customers in Germany and Switzerland; the first customer handover took place in 2018.

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

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The E-Mobility Group is set up globally with employees working in various locations throughout the company's worldwide development network, i.e. in Portland (US), Stuttgart (Germany) and Kawasaki (Japan). Global electric truck portfolio at Daimler Trucks.

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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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They also make it possible to travel during light traffic times, for example at night, and thus avoid traffic jams by intelligent route management. The main location is Daimler Trucks & Buses new Automated Truck Research & Development Center in Portland, Oregon.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon.

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