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Harbinger acquires autonomous driving company Phantom AI
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (432+ words) Electric trucking startup Harbinger has acquired autonomous driving software company Phantom AI, in an effort to vertically integrate more technology and create new revenue streams for the young company. The acquisition, which is Harbinger's first, is part of the startup's…...
Aurora's driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (621+ words) Aurora's self-driving trucks can now travel nonstop on a 1,000-mile route between Fort Worth and Phoenix " exceeding what a human driver can legally accomplish. The distance, and the time it takes to travel it, offers up positive financial implications for…...
Kodiak taps Bosch to scale its self-driving truck tech
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) Self-driving trucks company Kodiak AI announced on Monday it is working with global automotive supplier Bosch to develop a system of hardware and software that can give standard big rigs autonomous driving capabilities. The collaboration was announced at the 2026 Consumer…...
Autolane is building 'air traffic control' for autonomous vehicles
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (579+ words) The rapid succession of robotaxi deployments from companies like Waymo and Zoox have people in the industry, once again, dreaming about how autonomous vehicles might change our daily lives. That includes driverless taxi rides, sure, but also headier ideas like…...
Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (514+ words) Los Angeles-based electric truck startup Harbinger has raised $160 million in a Series C funding round co-led by FedEx, as it scales up production of its commercial vehicle program. As part of the investment, FedEx has ordered 53 of Harbinger's electric truck…...
Self-driving trucks startup Einride plans to go public via a SPAC
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (447+ words) Einride said Wednesday it plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, just six weeks after the Swedish electric and autonomous truck startup raised $100 million from investors. The SPAC merger with Legato Merger Corp. values…...
Waabi unveils autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (472+ words) Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck. The unveiling comes eight months since the Uber- and Nvidia-backed startup announced it was…...
Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail — catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (740+ words) Kevin Damoa came face-to-face with the challenges and dangers of moving freight from road to rail as a 17-year-old U.S. Army enlistee tasked with loading tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles onto the railroad. It was " as the mechanical engineer and founder…...
FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (742+ words) The thousands of small trucking companies that help move goods around the United States have a fairly old-school way of doing things, according to Paul Singer. He would know " he left his product manager job at Uber Freight to start…...
Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (422+ words) Einride, the Swedish startup known for its unusual-looking electric and autonomous pods that are designed to carry freight, said Wednesday it has raised $100 million from several new and existing investors, including its largest shareholder, EQT Ventures. The raise included an…...