The Iveco SpA / Plus Inc heavy-duty truck (Iveco S-Way) installed with Plus’s level 4 autonomous driving technology (‘PlusDrive’), has hit public roads in Germany.

The company aims to be the frontrunner in the race for autonomous bus-driving technology.  

The project, known as ‘Mach2’, aims to integrate Level 4 autonomous Renault minibuses, without onboard supervision, into the city’s public transport network, which is operated by Keolis.

PlusDrive-equipped trucks will employ mid- to long-range lidar from Luminar on an exclusive supplier basis, while Plus will act as exclusive third-party supplier of AI-powered driver assistance software to Luminar’s OEM customers.

From the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Volvo will test autonomous trucks on freight corridors to El Paso and to Houston.

At the first UITP summit in four years, we report on developments related to two topics: electric vehicles and artificial intelligence.

The agreement between Toyota and Komatsu is to further enhance safety in mineral extraction operations. Komatsu has so far deployed 650 heavy duty mining trucks with its Autonomous Haulage System ()at 22 mining sites in five different countries,

The first driver-supervised road tests are taking place in Israel with an ‘eCentro’ midibus supplied by Otokar.

The CME Solutions report, confirmed 113 e-Atak registrations in Europe in 2022, growing its European electric midibus market share from 30% in 2021 to 40% in 2022.

Einride has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MOEI) to deploy 8 electric vehicle charging stations (500 charging points) over 550 km, with 2,000 electric delivery vehicles (of which 200 will be autonomous) across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah over the next five years.

Mobileye will supply its autonomous driving hardware along with its ‘Road Experience Management’ real-time mapping software which uses dynamic roadmaps to inform the autonomous vehicle’s decision making.

‘ROC-1’ is robotic charger which wirelessly communicates with the vehicle to insert the cable into the charging port and to remove the cable when charging is done.