Einride

Switching gears to the tech side of things, we finally hit a real milestone in Ohio.

Einride and EVE Logistics are now running daily driverless electric freight operations in Marysville.

Wait, daily? Like, not just a pilot program with a safety driver in the back?

Exactly.

Two autonomous electric trucks are running daily between Eave Logistics warehouses in Marysville.

The trucks, made by Swedish company Einride, are equipped with cameras, lidar, and radar.

The company's CTO says no one is in this truck, but Einride officials say remote operators monitor them from Austin, Texas.

Now the company say they're gathering data on safety and efficiency to see how this can be scaled beyond this route.

And I asked how fast these trucks can go.

Volume production of the Semi has already begun.

Einride placed a five hundred unit order earlier.

Additional customers have expressed interest in the truck.

The Canadian program focuses on fleet deployment and service support.

A bunch of other names in there as well.

Einride announced plans in August to add 500 to the fleet.

And for fleets, range and time off the road matter a lot more than the initial purchase price.

Tesla quotes an estimated range of up to 500 miles for the long-range semi-trucks.

We kick things off with a major technology partnership that's pushing heavy-duty autonomous trucking toward highway operations.

Swedish company Einride announced Monday it will build the next generation of its autonomous driving system on NVIDIA's Hyperion platform, a compute and sensor reference architecture specifically designed for level 4 autonomy.

Einride already runs hundreds of electric trucks for shippers in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, including autonomous trucks already working in contracted customer deployments.

The company expects that footprint to reach 1,500 to 2,000 vehicles by 2028. based on customer demand captured on its platform so far.

About 80% of that demand is suitable for automation in the medium term, the company said.

The two companies will work directly to extend Hyperion's compute, sensor, software, and safety architecture to the demands of heavy-duty freight, with NVIDIA supplying the compute platform and AI development tools, while Einride handles the driving system design, safety validation, regulatory approval, and customer deployments.

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U.S. diesel prices are at a fresh record, AAA's average price for the nation at $6.51. NVIDIA is partnering with Swedish truck company Einride to boost production of driverless vehicles today.

The company currently operates hundreds of electric vehicles.

The autonomous trucks would require minimum human intervention.