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Company's 52-week low was at $28.42 Price action over last quarter: Up 8.35% Company Profile Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Daimler makes premium passenger vehicles, commercial trucks and vans, and buses. Brands include Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Maybach, Freightliner, Western Star, Fuso, Thomas Built, BharatBenz, Setra, and Orion. Daimler Mobility provides the company's dealers and its customers with vehicle financing as well as mobility services in ride hailing, car sharing, and charging. Daimler owns 3.0% each of Renault and Nissan, 11.9% of Aston Martin, 15.0% of Russian truck maker Kamaz, and 9.6...

GREENSBORO — Vice President Kamala Harris came to the Triad on Monday to promote the Biden Administration’s ambitious American Jobs Plan. The trip, with its high-speed motorcade, speech, plant tour and carefully-staged photo opportunities, had all the trappings of a campaign outing with the president’s first-term agenda at stake. The full day of activity was not without moments of drama. In the closing moments of a visit from the first African-American and Asian-American woman to be vice president, Harris made a surprise stop to the International Civil Rights Center & Museum to...

On Monday afternoon, it was set to happen. The welder from Archdale was among a select group who were scheduled to greet Harris as she toured the local Thomas Built Buses plant during the vice president’s visit. “This is a historic moment,” Pratt said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing.” Harris, the nation’s first Black and first woman vice president, made the visit as part of the campaign by President Joe Biden’s administration to pass a massive infrastructure program through Congress. The American Jobs Plan would craft a $1.9 trillion stimulus package ...

Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system, will add hundreds of electric bus school buses to its fleet, and will become the biggest operator of electric school buses in the U.S., with the goal of going all electric in 14 years. Under a contract approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education Tuesday, Montgomery County Public Schools will introduce over 300 electric vehicles to its fleet of school buses in the coming years. The goal, county leaders said, is for the school system’s current fleet of school buses — which boasts more than 1,400 vehicles — to g...

Electric school buses don’t just eliminate the carbon and pollution emissions of their diesel-fueled counterparts; they also cost less to fuel and maintain over the long haul.  Unfortunately for cash-strapped school districts, the upfront cost to purchase an electric school bus is still more than twice as much as the cost of a diesel bus today. And that’s not counting the cost of new charging infrastructure or the risk that those charging costs may drive a district’s electric bills through the roof.  Highland Electric Transportation says it can remove those barriers for school di...