Daimler Magazine

At Mercedes, we’re experts when it comes to motorsports. The Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) and Benz & Cie companies were among the participants in the first auto race in history, which was held in 1894 on a route between Paris and Rouen. We’ve participated in the Formula 1 races since 1954, and in 2019 we entered the ABB FIA Formula E championship. Some might suppose that this isn’t much of a challenge for us after 125 years of making motorsports history. But the fact is that Formula E is a completely new challenge even for our experienced colleagues.

If you ask people on the street what the Mercedes-Benz brand stands for, their answers are fairly unanimous. In addition to comfort, luxury, and elegance the attribute that people ascribe most often to our vehicles from the A to the S-Class is their focus on their occupants’ safety.

Sustainable mobility produces surprisingly little noise, considering how many people are currently talking about it. When you slowly start up a Mercedes-Benz EQC [combined power consumption: 20.8 kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions, combined: 0 g/km*], all you hear is the quiet rolling of the tires. Sabine Angermann, 42, has the steering wheel firmly in her grip. She works at Mercedes-Benz Cars, where she heads the unit that is responsible, among other things, for raw materials procurement

Daimler Trucks & Buses own podcast “transportation matters” deals with truck-related topics. In conversation with guests from all over the world, Martin Daum, board member of Daimler AG, trys to find answers to thrilling questions. How do I get a truck to drive autonomously? What does training a basketball team have in common with the business world?

"As a native of the North Sea coast, I’ve always had an emotional connection with the sea. I like to remember certain moments from my childhood and youth: Sunday walks along the beach, cold breezes, and greedy seagulls.And that’s why I’m appalled whenever I hear about floating islands of garbage in the ocean that are as big as Mexico or whenever I have to walk along polluted beaches."

How much code is inside a Mercedes-Benz vehicle? In 2010 a Mercedes contained about 10 million lines of software. Today that figure is already far more than 150 million. In the automobile sector, the software is becoming increasingly complex.

Let’s be honest: There have been times when it was easier to say “You’ve got to live a little” than it is today. That’s because, at least at the emotional level, we suspect more strongly than ever before that many products in the premium or luxury segment are not good — for the environment, for the ecological balance sheet or at least for our own health.

Because we at Mercedes-Benz love sports, we have our own Formula 1 team, sponsor professional tennis and golf players, and have lent the stadium in Stuttgart our name. Since January 2019, we also have an esports team. Admittedly, we don’t own all of it, but we do have shares in the Cologne-based esports organization SK Gaming.

It’s big, spacious, and electric. Following up on the eVito, our all-electric full-size MPV is now hitting the road: the Mercedes-Benz EQC (Stromverbrauch kombiniert: 27,0 kWh/100 km; CO2-Emissionen kombiniert: 0 g/km, Angaben vorläufig) .

Studying and working simultaneously in a large corporation like Daimler and also earning money? I think that sounds like the perfect deal for many young people to start their studies. When I was accepted to study dual mechatronics at Daimler, my decision was quickly made.