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Ikea China has recently introduced electric autonomous trucks into its Shanghai logistics network, following the successful completion of a preliminary 35,000-kilometer trial program. The trial program, initiated in April of 2024, has since evolved into daily…
Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond vehicle sales and is incubating ventures from…
Recently few reports emerged which said that Mercedes was scaling back from developing autonomous driving technology which was quickly buried by the company’s head of digital transformation. Now Alphabet-owned Waymo and Daimler have officially announced a…
Sweden’s AB Volvo is joining forces with Nvidia to develop artificial intelligence used in self-driving trucks, in a boost for the U.S. chipmaker that was ditched by Tesla last year. The agreement announced on Tuesday by Nvidia and Volvo, the world’s…
Sales of imported commercial vehicles plunged 38 percent last month from a year earlier amid slower economic growth, a local automobile association said Tuesday. The number of newly-registered imported commercial vehicles fell to 283 units in December from…
A driverless car on Indian roads may still be a distant dream, but companies are actively looking at ways to use other autonomous vehicles like tractors, buses, trucks, and even choppers. German logistics giant DHL, for instance, feels driverless trucks can…
Deutsche Post DHLGroup (DPDHL), the world’s leading mail and logistics company, today announced the launch of DHL SmarTrucking to provide an innovative trucking solution across an extensive line-haul express road network in India. DHL SmarTrucking is the…
Daimler Trucks has increased its worldwide deliveries in the first 11 months of 2017 by 12 percent year on year to 422,500 units, despite the continuation of disparate market conditions. Until the end of November, more trucks were delivered than in the whole…
Indian automaker Tata is moving production in Thailand as part of a company reset that aims to increase its Thai sales 83% this fiscal year to roughly 3,000 units. With a 10-year contract up at the Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant in the south of Bangkok,…
Made-in-China trucks which had once dominated the Vietnamese market are facing the slow sales since early 2016. According to the General Department of Customs, import of made-in-China trucks into Vietnam reached a record high of 26,700 units in 2015 worth a…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is urging Myanmar to make big investments in its infrastructure and significant policy changes to help it tap its full economic potential. The ADB recommendations were made in a recent Transport Sector Policy Note. Decades of…
Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer with a strong foothold in Asia, is enhancing its position in commercial vehicles in its core market Indonesia. The Daimler Trucks subsidiary FUSO (Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, MFTBC),…
