Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Autonet Mobile’s solution enables the vehicle to connect to mobile devices, machine-to-machine (M2M), vehicle-to-anything (V2X) and the Internet of Things. Autonet Mobile apps like parental controls, fleet management and remote vehicle commands support categories such as usage base insurance, parking and toll, and more.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Mercedes-Benz Trucks celebrated the world premiere of its battery-electric eActros for heavy-duty short-radius distribution—its first series-produced electric truck. For the eActros, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is using a global platform architecture: the ePowertrain. Due to the low noise level, night-time deliveries are also possible.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2016

Daimler Trucks demonstrated the new Highway Pilot Connect system for autonomous truck platooning on the A52 autobahn near Düsseldorf. Three WiFi-connected, autonomously driving trucks operated on the autobahn with authorization for public traffic in a platoon formation. The smart, self-optimizing truck has the highest priority for us.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

Autonomy, the nation’s largest electric vehicle subscription company, placed an order for 23,000 electric vehicles with 17 global automakers to expand and diversify its subscription fleet beyond Tesla. The fleet order is valued at $1.2 Telematics: Fully connected. The 23,000-unit order represents 1.2%

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mercedes-Benz has launched the eSprinter van in the United States, as it is now available for order in the United States for the first time, starting at $71,866. Mercedes-Benz brought an electric van to the U.S. Price The Mercedes-Benz eSprinter is available at U.S. and the Ford eTransit leads the market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2020

Belgian food box provider HelloFresh has received seven Mercedes-Benz eVito refrigerated electric vans with a cooling upfit made by Kerstner. Many customers would like to change their vehicle fleet over to sustainable drive concepts and, especially in urban zones, to operate their routes using battery-electric vans.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2019

Mercedes-Benz is expanding Vito van range with enhancements including new high-torque four-cylinder diesel engines for the Vito Tourer with passenger car approval. The new Mercedes-Benz Vito Tourer will also see the 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission being used for the first time. The Mercedes-Benz Vito was launched in 1995.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) today launched the largest-yet road test of connected vehicle crash avoidance technology in Ann Arbor, Michigan. NHTSA will use the valuable data from the ‘model deployment' as it decides if and when these connected vehicle safety technologies should be incorporated into the fleet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In the coming winter, in cooperation with the district of Zollernalb, Mercedes-Benz will test how safety on wintry roads and the efficiency of municipal winter services can be improved with car-to-X communication. In the next steps it will be possible to include public service vehicles, such as police cars, as well as vehicle fleets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is testing connected trucks in platooning operations on public roads in the US. In truck platooning, connectivity and automated driving improve safety within the vehicle convoys, support drivers and enhance efficiency through closer distances between the connected trucks. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Converting Fleets to EVs and Adding Roadside Assistance. EVs make a lot of sense for commercial fleets with reduced fuel and maintenance costs and batteries that can be sized to a specific route to eliminate range anxiety. Companies making near and long-range plans for their fleets are no longer merely thinking gasoline or diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Hermes and Mercedes-Benz Vans have agreed on a wide-ranging strategic partnership to electrify the courier service’s vehicle fleet. By the end of 2020, Hermes Germany intends to deploy 1,500 Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter electric vans in urban areas across Germany. —Frank Rausch, CEO of Hermes Germany GmbH.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Midsize Fastback Luxury Electric Sedan In Mercedes-Benz speak, anything going forward with an EQ on the badge means it is only powered by electricity. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE, compared to the EQS is smaller, lighter and a bit less powerful, none of which are a bad thing. Too small for a charge port, so what is it? Curious indeed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

million kilometers (2 million miles) of experience with the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Fuel Cell fleet as well as the main technical targets envisioned for the next generation fuel cell electric car. The B-Class F-Cell vehicle represented Mercedes-Benzs second-generation fleet experience. million miles) in fleet testing.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 7, 2024

Ford’s Transit and Mercedes-Benz’s Sprinter van have both been electrified, and apart from those two models, there are not too many options in terms of EV vans for suitable businesses to buy. Hardmon Williams, the SVP at AT&T Connected Solutions, said: “We’re excited to purchase Rivian EVs for our fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Vans will offer electric drive options on all its commercial van model lines. The eVito, the second all-electric production model from Mercedes-Benz Vans after the 2010 Vito E-Cell, starts at €39,990 (US$47,000) (in Germany excl. Mercedes-Benz presented its electric drive strategy at its eDrive@VANs workshop in Berlin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Vans, US drone systems developer Matternet and Swiss online marketplace siroop have started a pilot project in Zurich to test an efficient van and drone-based system for on-demand delivery of e-commerce goods. And, it allows companies with van fleets to further leverage them and add on-demand services.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The wholly-owned Daimler subsidiary Accumotive at the Kamenz location in Germany will employ around 1,000 people by the end of the year—doubling the workforce almost one year earlier than planned, said Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2018

FlexLA will help Angelenos and visitors travel throughout downtown in Mercedes-Benz Metris passenger vans and GLC hybrid vehicles driven by salaried US military veterans. All FlexLA drivers will be salaried employees with benefits and will be driving fleet vehicles rather than their own personal cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Mercedes-Benz Vans has launched an initiative it calls adVANce, focused on the company’s transformation from solely a vehicle manufacturer to becoming a provider of holistic system solutions for goods and passenger transport. Mercedes-Benz Vans also presented the "Vision Van" van study as part of the adVANce initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

The transaction will expand Verizon's capabilities in the automotive and fleet telematics marketplace and accelerate growth in key vertical segments, including emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) services applications driven by consumer trends and increasingly connected lifestyles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

During these tests, a heavy-duty FUSO Super Great operates electronically connected and semi autonomously in a platoon with trucks of other Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturers. Two years ago, we demonstrated with Mercedes-Benz trucks in Europe that platooning can be done and is highly advantageous.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2019

Operation of three new Mercedes?Benz The company was one of the first transport companies in Germany to incorporate the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro in its daily bus route operations. Benz eCitaro buses ( earlier post ) run by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv) has begun, marking the launch of two electric bus routes in Mannheim.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Headquartered in Hangzhou, the 50:50 JV will provide ride-hailing mobility services in several Chinese cities using premium vehicles including but not limited to Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Financial terms and the investment plans of the JV have not been disclosed at this stage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The close dialog between the main players is also intended to speed up previously lengthy and complex planning and application processes for network connections. The charging processes of electric fleet vehicles are another key that must be integrated into the operating process. Global electric truck portfolio at Daimler Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re excited to be working with Daimler to bring better, more energy-dense batteries to their fleet and bring our shared vision for the future of electric vehicles to life for more people. —Sajjad Khan, Executive Vice President for Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Electric Mobility, Daimler AG.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Since then, The Mobility House has been providing Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles plus fleet operators a comprehensive service supporting the individual charging infrastructure. EV fleet owners would then obtain income from the V2G service by being part of the The Mobility House managed EV portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

HERE Technologies has launched the new generation of its HERE Real-Time Traffic service—the first global service on the market that integrates live vehicle sensor data from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz vehicles with traffic probe information, resulting in significantly higher accuracy and more precise information about traffic conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The goal of the research is to develop one uniform transport concept that will be tested and demonstrated with the help of fleet tests made up of a significant number of test vehicles. Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Smart charging Smart Grid'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The new mobility service is based on the moovel on-demand platform, which enables the efficient operation of a demand-oriented, flexible fleet using intelligent journey management (routing), and the grouping of trip requests (pooling). The “Flex Pilot” app locates the user and shows suitable shuttle connections to the desired destination.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Using automated Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles, Bosch and Daimler propose to offer the service to a selected user community in the San Carlos/Stevens Creek corridor between downtown and west San Jose. The company is providing the necessary development vehicles, test facilities, and vehicles for the test fleet. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. million annually in 2016 to $36.6

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

So we’ve had Ram ProMasters since the 2015 model year, replacing the Dodge Sprinter van based on a design from previous owner Mercedes-Benz. Detroit automakers to offer a battery-electric van for the delivery fleets found throughout the US. Got all that? None of the “import” brands currently offer light commercial EVs in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Leasing, rental, and fleet companies grapple constantly with the cost and complexity involved in getting data from fleets with a diverse mixture of brands, models, and telemetry technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Public transport is undergoing a radical transformation; Daimler Buses has identified three issues that will have a significant impact on the transport transformation: increasing connectivity; electric mobility; and digital mobility services. At Daimler Buses we're very pleased with the 2018 business year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

In this jointly developed system for highly automated and driverless driving in cities, Mercedes-Benz intends to deploy battery-powered vehicles. To this end, the company is providing the necessary development vehicles, test facilities and later the vehicles for the test fleet.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 1, 2023

When matched against the perennial standard of the Mercedes-Benz S500 , the G90 equals or bests this iconic German luxury car in many ways. Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all Genesis models we have driven. AWD/Supercharger $99,795 Clean Fleet Report drove the 2023 Genesis G90 3.5T But things are changing for them.

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