Einride’s drone truck takes on first full-time job transporting GE equipment

Swedish self-driving trucking company Einride is using its cab-less electric delivery vans in Selmer, Tennessee, to transport items from GE Appliances’ manufacturing plants to warehouses. This operation will operate up to 7 shuttle buses per day from Monday to Thursday. press release stated.in an email edgeEach trip is 0.3 miles (or 0.48 kilometers) long and all on private roads owned by GE, Einride PR representative Matthew Klein wrote.

Einride will conduct controlled operations for the first time in 2021 at GE Appliances Campus headquarters. Subsequently, the company received approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2022 to begin public road testing, which was “the first public road pilot in the United States for purpose-built autonomous, electric vehicles.” There was no driver in the car. “

In a statement, Harry Chase, senior director of central materials for GE Appliances, claimed the trucks improve safety by reducing traffic and eliminate some tasks because workers don’t have to hitch and unhook trailers. The trucks are part of a larger project to “create an automated logistics process,” with AI cameras automatically triggering dock doors and Slip robots loading and unloading vehicles.

Because Einride’s trucks don’t use human drivers, its technology is considered Level 4 autonomous. In 2017, the company Unveiled first T-Pod design Interior space is maximized as no seats or steering wheel are required. Einride then showed More powerful prototypes 2018 was called T-Log, which resulted in 2020 designknown as autonomous electric transportation (AET).