The Detroit Diesel Company has been in the business of manufacturing diesel engines for over eighty years. Founded in 1938, the company was initially known as General Motors (GM) Diesel Division.

Detroit Diesel Corp. is planning to electrify more of its Redford Township factory with a $285 million investment including EV battery prototyping and pack assembly. The company, whose traditional ...

It will replace the four distinct engine series used today by Daimler Trucks brands globally, and will be manufactured at the company’s plants in Mannheim, Germany and Kawasaki, Japan as well as the ...

The 3 million-square-foot Redford plant is DDC’s only factory for new production. It opened in 1938 when Detroit Diesel was a General Motors Corp. subsidiary. The company makes its major lines ...

Detroit Diesel used an easy-to-decipher naming system ... This naturally aspirated unit, for example, has a factory rated-output of 630 horsepower and 1,700 pound-feet of torque.

Detroit Diesel Corporationsays it is moving its factory-fill engine oil to low viscosity FA-4 on the DD13, DD15 and DD16 heavy-duty line of engines. Detroit Engineering has issued two new fluid ...

After Caterpillar stopped building on-highway engines in 2009, the main fight is between Detroit and Cummins when it comes to the best commercial diesel engines on the market currently.