The de-merged Daimler AG received US $ 1. 35 billion directly from Cerberus but directly invested US $ 2 billion in Chrysler itself.

Daimler Germany now recognized they shared their right to the name Daimler with many others and to avoid further legal action the name Mercedes was adopted in 1902 for all the cars built by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft itself.

Following the withdrawal of Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach to their own business to concentrate on cars, the enterprise had been close to a crisis but stabilised itself, selling mobile and stationary engines through a number of retailers around the world, from New York City to Moscow.

Daimler will face harsher penalties if the company fails to meet the terms of the agreement during the two-year period.

Additionally, Louis J. Freeh, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will serve as an independent monitor to oversee Daimler ’ s compliance with anti-bribery laws.

Furthermore, research and development work in connexion with future Daimler models will proceed normally.

Under the proposed agreement, through a transition period of several months following the execution of definitive agreements and the closing of the transaction, MCI would evaluate operations related to Setra in North America, and, where appropriate, integrate such operations with existing MCI facilities which will permit MCI and Daimler Buses to realize significant operating synergies.

This planned partnership will allow Daimler Buses to better serve its customers through a broader service network, while strengthening Setra ’ s presence in North America.

Daimler announced in November 2011 that Maybach will cease to be a brand by 2013.

Maybach will be replaced by new and more luxurious models from the Mercedes brand, which is also made by Daimler.

In a joint-venture with Daimler AG, Iran Khodro is to start production of sophisticated 900-class Mercedes-Benz engines ; Daimler states that Iranian-made engines will be exported to Germany.

In 2009, Dennis, together with co-owners Mansour Ojjeh's TAG Group and the Bahraini Mumtalakat Holding Company, bought back Daimler AG's 40 per cent shareholding in a deal that will be concluded in 2011.

McLaren also said " The McLaren Group will become a fully independent stand-alone corporate entity " as McLaren is to buy back stock from Daimler in phases up until 2011.

The scheme's original development will be contained within Yaxley, though it is planned to expand it in two phases following the completion of the Yaxley section ; phase 2 will run along Broadway to Farcet, phase 3 will run from where Daimler Avenue meets Broadway to the A15.

A future joint venture with Daimler AG, Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Company, will focus on EV development and upmarket, BYD-branded sedans.

Daimler announced in December 2009 that it will move production of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class to its Vance plant, with production beginning in 2014.

The terms saw Daimler pay Cerberus US $ 650 million to take Chrysler and associated liabilities off its hands.

Although he was initially unable to sell his Knight Engine in the United States, a long sojourn in England, involving extensive further development and refinement by Daimler supervised by their consultant Dr Frederick Lanchester eventually secured Daimler and several luxury car firms as customers willing to pay his expensive premiums.

Simms offered to pay DMG £ 17, 100 for that transfer on the condition that Daimler and Maybach rejoined DMG.

The most luxurious XJ models carried either the Vanden Plas ( US ) or Daimler ( rest of world ) nameplates.

Two years after the merger of Daimler and Chrysler to form DCX, the U. S .- German conglomerate paid US $ 1. 9 billion for a controlling 34 percent of MMC, in an effort to fulfil chairman Jürgen Schrempp's vision of a " Welt AG " (" world corporation ").

With its Peterbilt, Kenworth, and DAF nameplates, Paccar ranks second in production numbers in the United States and third in production numbers globally in " big rig " truck production ; behind Daimler AG in the US market.

The first patent for a friction-based belt CVT for a car was filed in Europe by Daimler and Benz in 1886, and a US Patent for a toroidal CVT was granted in 1935.

On June 18, 2008, German car manufacturer Daimler announced that it would build a Mercedes-Benz manufacturing plant in Kecskemet, planning to invest € 800 million ( US $ 1. 24 billion ).

Until 1995 the firm operated under the name Kässbohrer-Setra, but in that year economic difficulties enforced its sale to Daimler Benz ( between 1998 and 2008 known, especially in the US, by the name of its holding company Daimler Chrysler ).

In the USA, Daimler AG has a CKD assembly plant in South Carolina that re-assembles Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans for sale in the US and Canada at Dodge and Freightliner dealers — essentially to circumvent the Chicken tax.

The investigation for the case revealed that Daimler improperly paid some $ 56 million in bribes related to more than 200 transactions in at least 22 countries ( including China, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Latvia, Serbia and Montenegro, Egypt and Nigeria, among other places ) that, in return, awarded the company $ 1. 9 billion in revenue and at least $ 91. 4 million in illegal profits.

Aabar also has a 9. 1 % in Daimler after purchasing the stake for $ 2. 7 billion in March 2009 and it was reported that Aabar wishes to increase its stake to 15 % in August 2010.

* Daimler AG: acquired a 2 % stake for $ 1 billion in German carmaker Daimler, making it the company's third largest shareholder in 2005.

In May 1960, the Daimler business was purchased from BSA by Jaguar Cars for 3. 4 million pounds.

In another attempt to silence Bazzetta, Daimler later offered to settle his termination of employment suit out of court and he eventually accepted a settlement.

Carl is the spelling variant he used for one company, C. Benz Söhne, he formed with his son Eugen after leaving the active management of his long standing company, but remaining on its board of directors for the rest of his life ( through its merger with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in which the two companies became Daimler-Benz ), and it is used for his autobiography by a recent publisher.

* Mercedes ( car ), the pre-1927 brand name of German automobile models and engines built by Daimler company

In 2007, when the Chrysler group was sold off to Cerberus Capital Management ( see below ), the name of the parent company was changed to simply " Daimler AG ".

Carmaker Daimler AG and the utility company RWE AG were set in 2009 to begin a joint electric car and charging station test project in the German capital, Berlin, called " E-Mobility Berlin ".

Airco and BSA, parent company of Daimler, announced on 1 March 1920 that Airco had amalgamated with Birmingham Small Arms Company.

* 2003-Acquired Steyr Daimler Puch Spezialfahrzeug ( SSF ) from an Austrian investor group, which bought the company in 1998 from the Steyr-Daimler-Puch-conglomerate.

The name of Daimler as a marque of automobiles had been sold by DMG-following his death in 1900-for use by other companies ( Daimler Motor Company and Austro-Daimler ), so the new company, Daimler-Benz, would have created confusion and legal problems to include Daimler in its new brand name, and therefore, used Mercedes to represent the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft interest.

When the Chrysler Group was subsequently sold off to Cerberus Capital Management and renamed Chrysler LLC in August 2007, the name of the parent company was changed to simply Daimler AG within two months.

Nikolaus Otto, part owner of the company, focused on engine development with Daimler.

With the 1998 merger of Daimler Benz and The Chrysler Corporation, the company was renamed DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG on November 7, 1998.

Among the companies using Knight's technology were Avions Voisin, Daimler ( 1909 – 1930s ) including their V12 Double Six, Panhard ( 1911 – 39 ), Mercedes ( 1909 – 24 ), Willys ( as the Willys-Knight, plus the associated Falcon-Knight ), Stearns, Mors, Peugeot, and Belgium's Minerva company that was forced to stop its sleeve-valve line of engines as a result of the limitations imposed on them by the winners of WWII, some thirty companies in all.

The Sterling nameplate, unused by White as long as the company owned it, went to Freightliner after the companies ' split ; it is currently used by Freightliner's parent company, the Daimler Group.

The company commenced production of the Dornier 328 in 1998 under license from Daimler Benz Aerospace.

In 1890, Daimler and Maybach formed a company known as Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft.

When in 1872 Otto und Langen reorganized as Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz, management picked Daimler as factory manager, bypassing even Otto, and Daimler joined the company in August, taking Maybach with him as chief designer.