Welcome to the "Walker Without Boundaries, Achieving the Extraordinary: 2022 Mercedes-Benz Domestic Heavy Truck China Launch Conference" media live stream room. Here, you will witness how a Mercedes-Benz heavy truck, integrating reliable quality, leading fuel efficiency, intelligent safety, and comfortable driving, is born in China. It provides an immersive experience of the star emblem products and services tailored to the business scenarios and market segments of Chinese heavy truck customers. With a century of innovation and heritage, we embark on a new journey! With a century of quality inheritance, we pay tribute to every logistics professional!

The China-exclusive Actros and Actros C both adopt Mercedes-Benz's latest-generation Actros platform, equipped with efficient fuel-saving, intelligent safety, and comfortable driving features, which will strongly enhance customers' business competitiveness. In the previously held preview events, the domestic Actros and Actros C have been publicly showcased in multiple logistics hub cities, with logistics customers engaged in cold chain, express delivery, precision instruments, and other specialized transport segments expressing admiration and recognition for their performance and quality. At this launch conference, Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy trucks will make a grand appearance, fully disclosing vehicle configurations and prices, setting a new benchmark for the high-end heavy truck industry.

As one of the earliest automotive companies to introduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) concept into China's commercial vehicle industry, Mercedes-Benz Trucks has always been committed to the healthy growth of customers and the sound development of the industry. Beyond the high-quality complete vehicle products, professional and convenient services are also a key part of determining customer experience. Upholding the value proposition of "Star Shines in the East, Steady and Far-Reaching: In China For China," Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy trucks have established a service commitment of "three changes, three unchanged" to comprehensively ensure customers have no worries. With the official launch of the complete vehicle products, Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy trucks have also combined the development needs of the current logistics and transportation industry to further evolve the TCO concept and system, forming unique leading advantages to empower customers and the industry.

The Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy truck China launch conference officially begins!

Dr. H. Seidel, President and CEO of Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co., Ltd., said in his speech: This is the most challenging and also the most wonderful task in my twenty-year career. We will launch a Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy truck created with the original intention of "In China For China." For us, China's heavy truck market is one of the most influential markets globally. China's logistics and transportation industry is developing toward high efficiency and specialization. To improve business performance, customers are placing increasingly higher demands on the efficiency and reliability of logistics equipment, especially when the market environment faces multiple challenges. Therefore, we provide efficient and reliable transportation solutions for Chinese customers, helping them become more competitive in their businesses and achieve greater returns and success. Mercedes-Benz is one of the world's renowned brands, and people tend to associate it with values such as inherent excellence and trustworthiness. Our goal is to convey the brand's inherent exceptionalism and reliability through our products and services to customers. This is our commitment to customers. The key to achieving this goal lies in first making our customers successful. This means we will spare no effort to provide reliable and efficient transportation solutions to help customers succeed. Why do we do this? Because we firmly believe that as long as we can substantially drive customer business success and continuously enhance customer competitiveness, our business goals will naturally be achieved smoothly. To support customer success, we must be ingenious. We always adhere to customer-first, actively listening, and strive to build long-term partnerships based on trust. We must provide customers with effective solutions, helping them find the most suitable products and services for their business development—not the most expensive ones. We must bring customers a truly Mercedes-Benz heavy truck and a service experience that truly meets Mercedes-Benz standards, refreshing and more tailored for China. Every truck we build is a genuine Mercedes-Benz truck, perfectly inheriting the technical DNA of Mercedes-Benz trucks. They are personally overseen by Mercedes-Benz truck engineers, achieving a perfect organic combination of vehicle hardware and software. They undergo rigorous technical calibration and validation, solely to ensure high product reliability and safe use for customers. They are built following the same Mercedes-Benz production standards and quality management as European standards. All these efforts serve one mission: to 100% inherit and carry forward Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks' pursuit of quality. What does "In China For China" mean? We combine globally leading truck technology with value contribution to the Chinese market, bringing better product performance, more competitive cost-effectiveness, closer alignment with market needs, and faster response speeds, striving to achieve the best balance between quality and cost-effectiveness. This is also the original intention of domestic Mercedes-Benz trucks.

Karl Deppen, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck Holding AG and Head of Asia Business, said in his speech: From the beginning of the localization project, Daimler Truck has fully supported the birth of this truly Mercedes-Benz heavy truck in China. Achieving success in this key market of China is of critical strategic importance to Daimler Truck. We aim to create this inherently exceptional truck into a product tailored for the Chinese market that fully inherits the century-old DNA of Mercedes-Benz trucks, living up to the most valuable brand under Daimler Truck. The DNA of Mercedes-Benz trucks represents safety, quality, reliability, and fuel efficiency. To this end, we share in parallel Mercedes-Benz's cutting-edge truck technology and the most successful truck platform, the world-renowned Mercedes-Benz Actros. We have mobilized hundreds of experts across China and Europe, bringing over 120 years of truck R&D and manufacturing expertise and experience to the localization project. Our European experts work in close collaboration with the team in China, ensuring that every detail is perfectly realized, from factory construction to quality management, from product engineering to talent development. What you see and feel on this truck is a model of our global collaboration and technological strength. What we seek is long-termism in the Chinese market—developing in China and progressing with China. For those who drive wheels to move the world forward, this is the unchanging original intention of Daimler Truck. With this intention, we will make greater contributions in China, one of the world's largest economies. Daimler Truck will continue to provide strong support for the sustainable development of its business and market in China.

Marcus Kliewer, Vice President of R&D at Daimler (China) Commercial Vehicle Investment Co., Ltd., explained the domestic Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks. The domestic Mercedes-Benz heavy truck offers two models: Actros and Actros C. The Actros is equipped with the latest-generation Mercedes-Benz OM 471 engine and the Mercedes-Benz Powershift 3, a 12-speed AMT gearbox, with power ranging from 420 to 530 horsepower. With its inherently fuel-efficient nature, it achieves the best TCO performance for users, making it a leading choice for ultimate transportation efficiency. The Actros C, based on the Actros product platform, is paired with a dedicated Cummins engine and a ZF 12-speed AMT gearbox, with power ranging from 410 to 580 horsepower. It is calibrated and deeply tuned by the Mercedes-Benz R&D team, achieving lower energy consumption with leading fuel-saving technology in the industry, making it an upgrade choice for all logistics scenarios. But they share one common point: both products adopt the latest-generation Actros platform from Mercedes-Benz, equipped with more leading fuel-saving, intelligent safety, and driving comfort features, tailored to Chinese logistics usage scenarios to meet customers' customization needs, while enjoying world-class heavy truck technology and quality without generational gaps. "In China For China" is our product value proposition, which requires us to develop a truck in China that truly represents the star emblem standard while also meeting Chinese regulations and user needs. My R&D team came to China seven years ago. They are over 200 Mercedes-Benz truck engineers from Germany, the United States, Brazil, Turkey, and India, many of whom were part of the original team that developed the Actros platform. Initially, we did not fully understand some unique needs of Chinese users. To find answers, we repeatedly went deep into user research, and through over 700 customer visits, we continuously updated design solutions based on local user needs. Through dedicated R&D, we ultimately presented these valuable inputs in our products, achieving multiple unprecedented firsts. In the history of Mercedes-Benz trucks, beyond cutting-edge technology and years of accumulated vehicle-building experience, we bring strict global R&D testing and technical release standards for Mercedes-Benz trucks. All this ensures the "pure lineage" of every Mercedes-Benz truck.

Next, let's watch a video of user real-world experiences and explore the charm of the domestic Mercedes-Benz Actros with the presenter. The Mercedes-Benz Actros adopts the latest third-generation Mercedes-Benz OM 471 engine and Mercedes-Benz Powershift 3 AMT gearbox, fully synchronized with European technology. The third-generation Mercedes-Benz OM 471 engine covers a power range of 420 to 530 horsepower. For the 420hp/450hp/480hp power outputs, with Mercedes-Benz's exclusive Top Torque automatic torque increase system, it can add an additional 200N·m of torque in gears 7-12, providing greater torque. It also offers optional PPC (Predictive Powertrain Control) cruise control. Combined with the OM 471 engine's asymmetric turbocharger, smart water pump, low-pressure common rail, and X-Pulse high-pressure injection technology and other fuel-saving features, it can save up to 14% in fuel.

The dual fuel tank design has a total capacity of over 1000L, and with the dual-chamber oil tank support, it facilitates cold-weather starting of the vehicle.

Standard features include FCWS, LDWS, and other safety assistance systems. Additionally, optional features include Mercedes-Benz's leading ABA 5, the fifth-generation active braking assistance system, and ADA 2, the second-generation active driving assistance system. The former can judge whether to execute emergency braking when approaching stationary or moving objects and engage actively under certain conditions. The latter helps the driver ensure the vehicle stays in its intended lane and automatically controls acceleration, steering, and maintains a set distance from the vehicle ahead, providing multi-faceted support for transporters to achieve efficient operations.

After-sales Director Wang Yong introduced full-lifecycle service solutions. Leading fuel efficiency, intelligent safety, comfortable driving, and reliable quality are the direct value experiences our products can bring to customers. With the official launch of Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy trucks, we have also simultaneously introduced a new service brand, "Ben Hao Yun," and the "Ben Hao Yun" customer APP. Through the "online showroom" in the "Ben Hao Yun APP," you can intuitively understand the specific configurations and detailed technical parameters of the products. Combined with real vehicle data, it accurately recommends the optimal model that fits your usage scenarios. In the vehicle purchase process, we have noticed many customers' needs for financing. Therefore, we collaborate with "Ping An Leasing" and "Minsheng Leasing" to create exclusive financial policies for customers. Both financial institutions provide financial products for domestic Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks with financing terms of up to 48 months. Additionally, we have teamed up with "Ping An Insurance" to offer exclusive insurance products for customers, reducing operating costs through insurance group purchasing. In the vehicle usage phase, highway tolls account for over 30% of TCO. We have partnered with the leading national ETC service provider, Xinlian Technology, to provide users with "ETC issuance and toll advance payment services," allowing customers to flexibly choose daily, weekly, or monthly settlement modes. How to make the inherently fuel-efficient Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks achieve even more impressive data? We primarily assist customers from the two dimensions of "training" and "management." Customers can self-learn through the "fuel-saving driving videos" in the "Ben Hao Yun APP." At the same time, every Mercedes-Benz domestic heavy truck 4S store is equipped with professional driving trainers. After you purchase the vehicle, we provide professional, precise training services. "Connected vehicle remote driving behavior analysis" also provides online and offline precise guidance and training for fleets and drivers, and the system automatically generates "monthly operational reports" to assist fleet management in achieving "digitalization and intelligentization" in vehicle and fleet management. After the domestic Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks enter the market, under the premise of ensuring Mercedes-Benz global "unchanged quality standards," "unchanged service standards," and "unchanged customer-first service philosophy," we make "maintenance prices more affordable, parts supply more timely, and service outlets more dense." As the first localized European heavy truck brand in China