Shaping future transportation: FUSO is an integral part of Daimler AG, one of the world’s most successful automotive companies. With its divisions for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and vans, Daimler trucks and buses, and financial services, the Daimler Group is a leading global vehicle manufacturer and the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach. FUSO serves as a center for the development of light-duty trucks and hybrid technologies. Together with BharatBenz, FUSO is a corporation that represents Daimler Trucks Asia.
The FUSO brand is known for its trusted quality, economic efficiency, solid & functional design and committed services. FUSO is the leading Japanese brand across many markets, known for its track record of technological innovations and high customer satisfaction based on the lowest total cost of ownership.
FUSO products offer ultimate reliability and durability, which translates into payload and uptime for their customers. To ensure their vehicles keep delivering profits, FUSO applies the Commercial Vehicle Development System (CVDS) and its clearly defined quality gates from project launch to start of production, guarantee their product maturity and quality. R&D expertise from around the world is exchanged and implemented to ensure their customers are benefiting from the most advanced designs and materials.
The Truck Operating System (TOS), also a global Daimler method, adopts manufacturing methods from the best plants in the world and serves as a benchmark to ensure highest performance and continuous improvement in meeting their objectives in terms of safety, quality, cost, delivery, environment and employee morale. FUSO plants consistently rank as one of the leanest in global benchmarks.
Their Kitsuregawa Proving Ground is the largest of its kind in Japan and within Daimler Trucks and helps them test their products under severe and standardized conditions. Their efforts pay off: FUSO products constantly rank first in residual values and often live a second life after being exported from their original country.
FUSO products are known for the best lifetime cost advantage, their benchmark fuel efficiency and ecology. They take into account not only the initial purchase price, but also cost and profit drivers, such as ease to repair and maintain, residual values, tax and insurance advantages, maintenance cycles and fuel efficiency. The Canter Eco Hybrid, for example, is the world’s most fuel efficient vehicle in its class, proven by independent fuel efficiency tests and product ratings. They share their passion for efficiency with their customers using the FUSO Fuel Cup, a championship that rewards the most efficient driver.
Their plants are just as efficient and ecological as their products. They have already introduced a solar system in the Kawasaki plant and actively utilize it to generate electricity. At the same time, they constantly monitor their energy use using a state-of-the art Energy Management System (EMS). Green innovation is also a core objective in logistics, where FUSO is demonstrating environmental leadership by introducing modal shifts and milk run supply chains to reduce CO2 emissions.
FUSO vehicles provide the highest satisfaction of ownership & usability. They are passionate about working vehicles and designing them with their customers’ daily comfort, utility value and ease of use in mind. With world firsts, such as the first pneumatic shift transmission, shock-reducing DUONIC®dual-clutch transmission and onboard multi information display, FUSO has always provided its customers with the latest technology to improve their usability. Customer voices are often reflected in our designs, such as the lowered fuel cap for their city buses to enable staff of any height to refuel the vehicle safely and efficiently.
The FUSO Canter pioneered an in-panel shifter because drivers needed to exit the cab from both sides in some applications. Their medium duty truck is available with two headlight configurations to meet the varying needs of construction and city applications.
They believe that good design combines utility and aesthetics, which is why they offer countless ways to customize vehicles using genuine accessories. Their color series trucks show the endless potential of one of the most advanced paint facilities in the business, offering their customers to use their vehicles as an extension of their own corporate color.