Serial SPAC creator Hennessy Capital and Plus cancel their merger, likely over Chinese technology regulations that could carry over to U.S. business.
As public trading nears this week, 26-year-old Embark Trucks co-founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak focus on lean autonomous trucking.
Autonomous trucks hauling freight for Walmart are running with no driver in the seat in Arkansas, says autonomous vehicle company Gatik.
“The customer demand will change so much faster than the industrial processes, and I think that to be early might be challenging, but to be too late will be devastating,” said Anna Borg, president and CEO of Vattenfall.
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Shipping container EV chargers can halve installation setup time and costs, Amply CEO Vic Shao said.
According to the company, Over-the-Road Rating is available for customers now as a web interface under its Visibility Operations center. Project44 plans to make an API-based platform available for the tool by the end of Q4.
Revenue is not the point in TuSimple’s partnership with UPS, which holds the autonomous trucking startup to its third-party shipper standards.
“The deluge of information can lead to processing delays, false detections and erroneous alarms. All this processing noise is what leads lidar systems to behave like distracted drivers,” said Spartan Radar’s founder and CEO on competing technology.
The grant from Emissions Reduction Alberta will help CP convert two more locomotives to hydrogen power and add more hydrogen production and fueling facilities.
Einride has been running its autonomous freight Pods in Europe since 2019, but founder and CEO Robert Falck has high hopes for the company’s entry to the U.S. “It is such a great challenge and I’m really excited. This U.S. freight transportation community is the most competitive in the world,” he said.
From merger to business combination in less than four months, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation expects to begin public trading on Thursday.
“Noregon has a lot of different opportunities available to us and we could take the company 100 different ways right now. What direction to take is something we feel like the Hearst management team can help us with,” said the founder and CEO of Noregon.
Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.
Amid global shipping congestion, GEODIS urges importers not to overlook their customs responsibilities.
Adam Kahn outlines the benefits of Netradyne’s positive twist on fleet safety management.
“The end goal for our customers is to reduce waste and deliver potent medicine and safe food. We help them do it with data.”
In the disruptive world of autonomous trucking, TuSimple says it has to haul freight to prove the technology works.
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