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Ola Källenius

“WE’RE INVESTING LIKE NEVER BEFORE INTO NEW TECHNOLOGIES.”

la Källenius took over as Daimler AG’s chairman of the board of management in 2019. His tenure has been marked by the launch of high tech within vehicles, the need to cut fixed costs, and a pandemic that could have easily thrown everything off course. In his first media roundtable of 2021, Källenius focused on the premiere of the massive MBUX Hyperscreen that constitutes the

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