Daimler opens new bus plant in Colombia and expands its bus business in Latin America

Daimler is further expanding its bus business in Latin America - the wholly owned subsidiary Daimler Colombia S. A. is opening a new bus plant in Funza near Bogota with an installed capacity of 4,000 units per year. To this end, US$ 2-million are being invested in the bus

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Change of personnel at Daimler Trucks & Buses

Change of personnel at Daimler Trucks & Buses: Effective July 1, 2015, Ulrich Bastert (55), Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes-Benz Trucks, and Till Oberworder (44), Head of Marketing, Sales and After Sales Daimler Buses, will swap their positions.

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Daimler Buses India begins to supply chassis from Oragadam to Egypt

Daimler India Commercial Vehicle Pvt. Ltd. (DICV) has started to export bus chassis from India.

Hartmut Schick, Head of Daimler Buses, and Markus Villinger, Head of Daimler Buses India, were present at the Egyptian capital of Cairo to celebrate the delivery of the first bus chassis

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World premiere of Mercedes-Benz CapaCity L, the longest Mercedes-Benz bus

It is an imposing 21 m long and provides space for up to 191 passengers as standard. It consumes well below 0.5 l/100 km per passenger and has only minimal emissions: The CapaCity L high-capacity articulated bus makes an important contribution towards counteracting

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3,000th Mercedes-Benz Citaro Euro VI delivered

The Mercedes-Benz Citaro is celebrating a key milestone at the ONC new bus centre in Mannheim - almost eight months to the day after the delivery of the 1,000th Citaro Euro VI and only 11 months after the introduction of the relevant statutory requirement, the 3,000th

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Innovative Mercedes-Benz Citaro is 'Bus of the Year'

Its technical innovations have helped it to knock the technical trailblazers of a new era out of the running: in this year's rivalry for title of 'Bus of the Year 2013' the new Citaro with Euro-VI engine won the overwhelming support of the international jury of experts, way ahead of

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Singapore transit operator places major order for 450 Mercedes-Benz city buses

The Mercedes star will soon be seen more often in the city-state of Singapore. Daimler Buses has once again received a major order from the Southeast Asian country and will begin delivering the first of a total of 450 Citaro buses there in fall 2012. Plans call for the

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The first fuel-cell buses with hybrid technology go into regular service in Switzerland

PostAuto Schweiz AG has become the first company in Switzerland to deploy fuel-cell technology for public road transport. Since the end of 2011, five Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid models have been serving on routes in and around Brugg (in the canton of Aargau)

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Customers take delivery of first series production Citaro buses meeting the Euro-VI

Wiesbaden-based ESWE has taken delivery of a Mercedes-Benz Citaro meeting the future Euro-VI emission standard in a handover ceremony attended by Dr. Helmut Muller, Lord Mayor of the provincial capital of Wiesbaden. A further two vehicles are due to be

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All set for Euro-VI: Start of series production for the cleanest regular-service diesel bus

A new chapter in the history of regular-service bus operations - the first series-production Citaro to meet the Euro-VI emissions standard left the production line at the EvoBus plant in Mannheim. With the start of series production, Mercedes-Benz once more takes the

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