The Traton group's strategy is to increase profitability and efficiency by reorganising and consolidating its business operations, targeting a 9% return on sales for the entire group in 2024. 

The Special Vehicles division of Terberg successfully tested an autonomous terminal tractor in mixed traffic operations at the Lineage Logistics terminal in Vlissingen, Netherlands, using technology supplied by EasyMile.

Overseen by the Centre for Connected an Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), a joint unit of the Department for Transport (DfT) and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the UK government is opening a GBP41.5m competition to fund projects that will autonomous commercial vehicles to market.

The ‘Plus Build’ programme will install Class 8 trucks with ‘PlusDrive’, a product package comprising LiDAR, radar, and camera sensors together with the company’s proprietary autonomous driving software, within a single day.

Lightning eMotors Inc, has announced a partnership with AI company Perrone Robotics to provide customers with Class 3-7 commercial vehicles equipped with varying levels of autonomy.

Easymile SAS has begun an autonomous vehicle pilot project at the Wörth plant of Daimler Truck AG. The TractEasy project is operating an autonomous tow tractor to transport production parts outdoors across a 900m route with mixed traffic conditions.

Enviro200 buses from Alexander Dennis Ltd have taken part in a pilot on-road autonomous passenger-less scheme, ahead of operations with passengers that are scheduled for later this year. Bus operator Stagecoach has been conducting the passenger-less tests over the course of two weeks

Robert Bosch GmbH is set to acquire Five AI Ltd, a start-up specialising in autonomous driving software based in Cambridge, UK. The acquisition adds to Bosch’s autonomous mobility portfolio following the announcement that it was acquiring German firm Altatec GmbH earlier in April of this year.

California-based Kodiak Robotics Inc has announced a partnership with U.S. Xpress to deliver freight autonomously between Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.

The autonmous driving technology company has announced that it is opening a new technology and software development centre in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, nearby the headquarters of its parent, Daimler Truck.

The company has established the Torc Autonomous Advisory Council (TAAC) with the aim of allowing logistics firms to guide and advise Torc Robotics as it develops its first commercialised autonomous truck.

ZF has acquired a 6% stake in StradVision, whose main product, SVNet, is an AI-driven vision processing technology which allows vehicles to perceive and identify objects around it.