Hino Motors Ltd. and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. said Tuesday they will integrate their businesses in a bid to improve their productivity and ramp up investment in new technologies such as electric vehicles and self-driving cars.

The two Japanese firms and their parents, Toyota Motor Corp. and Germany's Daimler Truck, signed a basic agreement, they said.

==Kyodo

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