Windrose and Terawatt deepen strategic partnership

Electric truck maker Windrose Technology and Terawatt Infrastructure recently announced a deepening of their existing strategic partnership through a series of interoperability tests at Terawatt’s flagship site in Rancho Dominguez, California. 

The tests include demonstrating Windrose’s dual guan charging capabilities, which deliver over 650 kW using two 350 kW chargers from Delta Electronics. A 240-mile range charge was achieved in around 40 minutes using the two-charger system. 

The collaboration also includes software integration. That entails connecting Windrose’s vehicle systems to Terawatt’s site and energy management platform, increasing uptime and charging efficiency.

“This partnership is about more than performance metrics — it’s about delivering real-world solutions to the fleets driving the energy transition,” said Wen Han, founder, chairman and CEO of Windrose Technology, in a press release, “Together with Terawatt, we’re aligning vehicle and infrastructure platforms in a way that scales efficiently and delivers immediate value to customers.”

The collaboration is also extending to join customer programs as Windrose looks to grow its footprint in the United States. The release notes these programs include local customer deployments across Terawatt charging hubs in Southern California, as well as long-haul deployments at future sites along Terawatt’s I-10 corridor between Los Angeles and El Paso, Texas.

“By combining [Windrose’s] next-generation trucks with our infrastructure, and sites designed for quick charging with the least disruption to operations, including pull-through stalls that accommodate trailers, we are unlocking new electric lanes in southern California and beyond,” said Neha Palmer, CEO of Terawatt, in the release. “The deeper our collaboration goes — from power to software to site design — the better we serve our customers.”

Foretellix expands autonomous vehicle development platform

Foretellix, a developer that provides data automation for AI-powered autonomy, recently announced an expansion of its Foretify platform, allowing autonomous vehicle developers to slash development time. As more AV developers move from rules-based software of AV 1.0 to the synthetic and virtual data of AV 2.0 developers are running into issues of validation, as generative AI is more of a black box compared to a rule book.

“Physical AI creates a fast lane to autonomy that will ultimately improve our quality of life and help save millions of lives, but making it a reality requires an intelligent, data-driven approach to address AI’s inherent limitations,” says Ziv Binyamini, CEO and co-founder of Foretellix, in a news release.

Companies like Foretellix work through using data automation to train their own AI-powered AV stack by automatically curating hundreds of driving scenarios from physical operations and pairing them with generative synthetic scenarios. Foretellix’s toolchain uses hyper-realistic scenarios generated by integration with the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for AV Simulation and Nvidia Cosmos Transfer World Foundation Model.

These enhancements supplement Foretify’s advanced behavioral search capabilities by leveraging Cosmos’ sensor domain search functionality, which adds greater diversity in weather conditions, lighting scenarios and geolocations.

The company has attracted investment from industry leaders including Toyota’s Woven Capital, Temasek, Volvo and Nvidia. Foretellix customers include Daimler Truck subsidiary Torc, Volvo, Mazda, Woven by Toyota and Nuro.

Binyamini added: “Training, validating and providing evidence of autonomous systems’ safety are the key drivers for this industry to progress. Foretellix’s solution helps foster innovation and reduce the barriers to entry for AV developers, vehicle manufacturers and entrepreneurs, democratizing the road to driverless autonomy.”

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