Daimler Magazine

The press driving presentation of the A 250 e (fuel consumption, combined: 1.5–1.4 l/100 km, power consumption, combined: 15.0–14.7 kWh/100 km, CO2 emissions, combined: 34–32 g/km) and the B 250 e (fuel consumption, combined: 1.6–1.4 l/100 km, power consumption, combined: 15.4–14.7 kWh/100 km, CO2 emissions, combined: 36–32 g/km1) marks the end of a development phase that began for me in 2014, when I helped to define the requirement specifications for the hybrid drivetrain. During this time, we made several difficult decisions, which fortunately proved to be correct.

As you probably know from experience, there’s often a certain gap between theory and practice and between the effort expended and the results. In my case, the “gap” was the distance of almost 6,500 kilometers that separates Germany from Nepal. I work for Govinda, a volunteer organization for sustainable development cooperation in Nepal. Daimler ProCent helps fund our cooperative development projects for severely disadvantaged people in Nepal.

Kinetosis is a very common ailment. According to an internal investigation, around half of the population has had a personal experience of nausea when travelling by vehicle. At Daimler, I am working at the possibilities of improving the wellbeing of all passengers in our vehicles – and reducing the occurrence of kinetosis.

Descenso del río Sella is an international canoeing competition on the Sella River in Asturias in Northern Spain. Oscar Sánchez works in the Service Department at Mercedes-Benz Vans España and tells us what happens on August 3 at this very prominent festival in Spain.

Until lap 25 of the Grand Prix, Hockenheim had been a fantastic weekend. We had met thousands of colleagues in and around the circuit; enjoyed the incredible sporting history of our brand at the Fan Zone; celebrated 125 years of amazing motorsport; and rolled out our own commemorative touches with a special livery, paddock decoration, retro-themed garage and ‘50s style team clothing. As some of us joked going into the weekend – it was almost like we were tempting fate…!

Since the fall of 2018 the eCitaro has been rolling off the production line in Mannheim. Here you can find out how, with the help of a lot of machines and several robots, around 3,500 employees produce an all-electric city bus from up to 30,000 parts within five weeks.

My name is Adi Ofek. I am the CEO of our Mercedes-Benz Tech Hub in Tel Aviv. I joined Daimler almost 19 years ago - employee number 1, when we set up Daimler Financial Services in Israel.

Mike Massimino (a professor at Columbia University and former NASA astronaut), Armin Pohl (CEO of Mackevision), and Cem Özdemir (a politician from the German Greens party) — what may sound like a list of guests for the German talk-show host Markus Lanz in his better days is, in fact, the illustrious group of speakers on the stage of the STARTUP AUTOBAHN.

Following the defeat in Austria, inside the team we set ourselves the objective of pushing hard to the summer break to cement our advantage in the world championship standings. The target was three races, three wins. Silverstone marked the first step in our recovery from that difficult race in Spielberg. Hockenheim is the next date in the diary – and it’s a particularly important one, for obvious reasons.

Whether in Bremen, Rastatt or Sindelfingen, Alexandra Bauer and Philipp Hartmann conduct a joint ritual every morning as they go to work. They talk to one another on the phone, review the previous day’s events, and tell one another what will be on the agenda today.