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For anyone like me who has been fascinated by technology and motorsport since their youth, they couldn’t help but tinker with engines from the early days. In my case, it was a Vespa that I used to tune a bit in my garage at home. When my dad cottoned on, he just told me not to forget the brakes. It wasn’t until much later that I understood he wasn’t just talking safety…

New ideas and making people mobile have always been part of Daimler’s DNA. Some time ago, the Group embarked on an exciting journey of its own. Its objective is to make Daimler the digital leader of the automotive sector. As a member of the #transform team from DigitalLife@Daimler, I’ve been fortunate to be in a position where I can help shape the various stages of this journey.

“What is in a name?” - I remember reading the above quote a few years back and wondering to myself; do the names we’re given influence the way we live or does the way we live influence how our names live on and are used after we’re gone?

How can you decide what career you want to pursue if you don’t know what it’s all about before you start? That was the problem we — Jannis, Patrick, and Moritz — faced before we started our training as mechatronics specialists at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt.

The new GLB from Mercedes-Benz is now adding a new chapter to the successful history of compact vehicles. And I’m the proud Product Manager. That’s why I’m glad to have the opportunity to introduce this new vehicle to you from my personal perspective.

This time we’re in Canada! And that is a promising sign for a spectacular Formula 1 race. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is considered a very challenging one, due to its tight corners and long straight. In no other Formula 1 race are the brakes and transmission parts placed under so much strain. The demands on the suspension of the Formula 1 cars are particularly high.

Who am I? I revealed myself to the public for the first time in 1997 at the International Motor Show. I was very curious to see what the numerous visitors would think. After all, the world had never seen anything like me: a vehicle with sustainability in its genes.

How does Mercedes-Benz and eSports fit together? Here are 5 reasons why the conservative brand sponsors eSports.

When I passed my truck driving test as a member of the German armed forces in 1978, I couldn’t have dreamed that one day I would be leading a convoy of five 40-ton trucks to Barcelona. And I certainly couldn’t have imagined that I would be driving this route in the new Actros, the flagship vehicle of Mercedes-Benz Trucks.

When people ask me where I work, there’s only one right answer: “At the Daimler.” That’s what we say colloquially in Swabia, South of Germany. I was born here in Swabia, in Esslingen near the Headquarter in Stuttgart. Here and in our Daimler-Podcast HeadLights (this epdisode only available in German) I show you my work for the Mercedes-Benz Classic collection at the Classic Center in Fellbach (Stuttgart). This is the company’s big car collection, comprising about a thousand vehicles