Commercial freight EV and autonomous driving developer Einride continues to expand its operations globally. Today, the company announced the launch of the first daily commercial operations of its proprietary autonomous trucks in Europe, delivering goods for a pharmacy e-retailer.
Einride is a sustainable freight mobility specialist we’ve been tracking for several years, and for good reason. During that time the company has become one of the global leaders in scalable electric semi-trucks, digitally connected fleets, and autonomous and remote driving operations.
After expanding beyond Europe and establishing a US headquarters, Einride has expanded its sustainable fleet technologies throughout both continents, as well as the Middle East, where it secured a partnership with DP World.
Other clients include PepsiCo operations in the UK and, most recently, the US and Heineken in the Netherlands to move its beer through Europe. In November of 2023, the company announced the start of full-time, commercial autonomous truck operations with longtime partner GE Appliances.
Today, Einride announced a similar daily operation of autonomous trucks in Europe. More specifically, the trucks will transport cargo between pharmacy e-retailer Apotea’s warehouses in Sweden.
Einride’s autonomous trucks operate daily in Europe
Per Einride, it has commenced commercial daily operations of its autonomous trucks in Morgongåva, Sweden, about 1.5 hours outside of Stockholm. The milestone marks the first commercial daily operations of autonomous trucks in Europe and Einride’s second commercial autonomous daily operation as a company.
The deployment entails one of Einride’s heavy-duty vehicles operating fully autonomously, without a driver onboard, navigating routes between Apotea’s warehouses in Sweden. The company also shared that the designated route is adjacent and open to a public road, making its operations possible via a public road permit. Henrik Green, general manager for Einride Autonomous Technologies elaborated:
Our autonomous technology facilitated by machine learning allows for higher utilization and efficient, safe freight. Adding our first autonomous route at Apotea’s site, and the first daily autonomous operations in Europe, allows us to showcase how the Einride ecosystem can optimize entire logistics flows. We are proud to start off this partnership with shipping the last wave of holiday gifts from Apotea’s warehouse autonomously.
Today’s launch builds upon a two-year partnership with Apotea, during which Einride has helped the pharmacy save over 917,000 kg CO2e, equivalent to 20 electric laps around the planet. The company states its autonomous freight technology is now shipping Apotea’s final wave of holiday gifts from the warehouses in Sweden.
Author: Scooter Doll
Source: Electrek
