In Conversation with DTICI's Raghavendra Vaidya

As the European commercial vehicles giant Daimler Truck eyes a sustainable future replete with zero-emission trucks that run on electricity and hydrogen, the Daimler Truck Innovation Centre India (DTICI) - located in Bengaluru - is spearheading R&D and engineering services for the company's global platforms.

DTICI, which was commissioned in 2022 as Daimler Truck's largest innovation and development centre outside of Germany, is enabling product engineering and IT services by leveraging India's software talent pool. In this conversation, Raghavendra Vaidya, MD & CEO, DTICI, talks about how the centre is focusing on vehicle, and powertrain engineering by using CAD and CAE tools, as well as on the development of software, and IT programming using complex engineering methodologies. 

Vaidya further talks about electrifying Daimler's Actros, and Cascadia trucks for the global markets, as well as making Daimler products more intelligent and safer by deploying several ADAS functionalities. Video: