Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride has revealed plans to expand into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden.<\/p>\n
Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely if required by human operators. It\u2019s a notable departure from the slew of rival autonomous trucking companies out there, which are essentially retrofitting existing trucks for an autonomous world \u2014 Einride\u2019s trucks are custom built for autonomy, with no physical space for a human driver to even sit.<\/p>\n
While these so-called \u201cpods\u201d have been fully piloted with commercial clients, regulatory hurdles has meant that Einride has had to offer human-driven electric trucks as part of the transition to full-autonomy, which are available to shippers and carriers in Sweden and in the U.S., where it launched last year, powered by its software-based Saga platform for running and optimizing fleets.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also worth noting that Einride is gearing up to deploy its fully autonomous pods on U.S. public roads in partnership with General Electric Appliances (GEA), with imminent plans to start operating on a mile-long stretch of road between GEA\u2019s factory and a warehouse in Selmer, Tennessee. Einride has also attracted a fairly high-profile roster of early customers, including Oatly, Beyond Meat, Bridgestone, and Maersk, the latter represent Einride\u2019s largest order for electric transportation globally, with the Danish shipping company set to roll out some 300 trucks across Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nEinride in action\u00a0Image Credits: Einride<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n With its German launch, Einride is launching a regional office in Berlin, with plans to create logistics hubs in other key metropolitan areas. This will also require a purpose-built charging grid, which Einride said it will create along Germany\u2019s most important commercial routes and neighboring trade regions.<\/p>\n For the German launch, Einride is teaming up with home appliance manufacturing giant Electrolux, which will work with Einride toward building the charging infrastructure at its warehousing facilities.<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond this first partnership, we will focus on metropolitan areas such as the Ruhr area, Hamburg, Berlin, where we are planning on building our own charging network along major trade routes to support further potential partners with their fleet transformation,\u201d Einride CEO Robert Falck explained to . \u201cIn the beginning, our focus is on three main operational areas: the distribution of partial loads, shuttles between distribution centers and plants, and the electrification of the first and last mile of intermodal transports.\u201d<\/p>\n So while the initial focus will be squarely on its electric trucks, automation via its self-driving pods will be next on the agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we expand our presence and customer list in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), we are also looking forward to finding local partners who are ready to implement initial pilot projects with the Einride Pod, as we have already done in Sweden and the USA,\u201d Falck added.<\/p>\n As one of Europe\u2019s biggest economies and a freight and logistics powerhouses spanning road and sea, Germany represents an obvious expansion for Einride in the European market. And on top of that, today\u2019s announcement comes a year after Germany essentially greenlighted driverless vehicles on public roads, though the final legislation is still winding its way through the relevant regulatory processes.<\/p>\n \u201cGermany is in the driving seat of Europe \u2014 where it goes, others follow suit,\u201d Falck said. \u201cWe have the opportunity and technology to bring the biggest change to the freight industry since the invention of the internal combustion engine, and are ready to join forces with local partners to make transportation history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride has revealed plans to expand into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely if required by human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gearing up<\/h2>\n