Today, President Obama made a trip to a manufacturing plant for Daimler Trucks North America in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
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It all presents significant a challenge for Daimler to keep up the pace of production, management and governmental compliance in a country whose automotive market development depends largely at the will of federal mandate.
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The billion-dollar minivan joint venture, for which Daimler-Benz fought tooth and nail with its rivals, Ford and Chrysler, remains on the table.
Tesla is also in production of battery packs for the Daimler Smart EV's and in battery development programs with other vehicle and stationary customers.
But clearly, if they're - if the assembly line is going full bore, that's good news for Mercedes and Daimler.
She even still drives an old smart fortwo that she bought back in 2000 while living in Brussels, where she was the head of Daimler for Belgium and Luxembourg.
Daimler-Benz's enthusiasm for the venture can be judged from the fact that, nine months after the European consortium appointed an Italian president, the Daimler-Benz chief representative for China has still not met him.
After his experiences with Fokker, which cost Daimler-Benz DM2.3 billion, this is perhaps the most unpalatable project for the born-again Daimler chairman.
The education minister toured a Daimler workshop for trainees in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, with his German counterpart Annette Schavan.
Daimler aims for its Mercedes brand to overtake BMW and VW's Audi as the world's biggest selling luxury carmaker by 2020.
Daimler knows, for example, that when people look at the front of a sports car, a part of the brain that responds to faces--in the back of the brain where the cerebrum touches the cerebellum--comes alive.
Palo Alto, California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs and EV power train components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler.
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Daimler-Benz, for its part, was under the spell of Mr Schrempp, who had spent the formative periods of his adult life in South Africa and who still goes there to relax.
Daimler also said the market for trucks would fall 5% due to the slow economy.
Prime contractor for the satellite was Germany's Daimler Benz.
Occasionally the threat lay in that buzzword of today, globalisation, and its concomitant demand for greater scale: Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz because, even as number three in the world's largest car market, it was too small to prosper alone.
Daimler did not respond to requests for comment about the claims made by the supplier's sales director about its Chinese joint venture.
Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace makes parts for the Gripen.
Nissan will gets great engines for the luxury-end Infinity, and maybe Daimler will get a chance to sell more small cars.
Daimler trades at accounting book value and for just 0.39 times sales.
But the long-rumored divestment also marked a new beginning for its Germany parent which will be re-named Daimler.
Chrysler, for instance, is no longer part of the multinational Daimler-Benz.
Even so, she said, she struggled to meet the ballooning demand for new year gifts from even lowly employees at the Daimler joint venture on the outskirts of Beijing.
Under Daimler there was an emphasis on cost-cutting for Chrysler vehicles, perhaps so they would not upstage Mercedes' luxury cars.
Yet even though Renault has a great track record for joint ventures, the French carmaker is not really doing Daimler a favor.
Daimler is a fully integrated German maker of luxury cars, famed for its world-class design and engineering.
One priority is to find global partners that will help Chrysler develop small, inexpensive cars for developing markets like Southeast Asia, India and Russia--something that Daimler could not provide through its Mercedes luxury brand.
Sustained profitability has been elusive for Chrysler in the nearly six years since it was acquired by Germany's Daimler-Benz.
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