Joanna Cooper is a 14-year veteran of the Daimler Truck, having first served as a production buyer at Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC).
Stuttgart, Germany will be the new home of a technology and software development center to support ongoing Level 4 autonomous virtual driving for Daimler Truck vehicles in the United States.
The urban heavy-duty vehicle continues to prove itself in harsh conditions, passing endurance tests near the Arctic Circle.
Daimler desires truck customers to experience charging stations and charging concepts from different manufacturers operating in real time with various technologies.
This addition brings the total number of locations across the United States and Canada to 39.
A first version of the truck has already been delivered this year for integration of the Waymo Driver, the autonomous driving system.
While the chip shortage and other constraints have affected Daimler Trucks North America as they have other vehicle manufacturers, the company’s still number one in Class 6-8 market share and plans to stay there as it pushes forward with zero-emissions, autonomous, and connected-vehicle technologies.
John O’Leary, the new chief at Daimler Trucks North America, talks about the challenges of a booming truck market, the launch of new vocational and electric trucks, its parent company, and more.
As it prepares to separate from Mercedes-Benz passenger car operations, Daimler Truck identifies some global weaknesses and outlines how it plans to target them – but North American operations stand out.
Daimler Trucks is rapidly ramping down its internal-combustion-engine development as it puts more research and development investments into its dual-focus zero-emissions strategy of both battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric commercial vehicles.
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