Published:
21 April 2021 14:37 GMT
Following the company’s co-founder, the day after Elon Musk announced the launch of the Tesla Semi, his team launched its first autonomous electric truck, called Pod.
Ante the question of which company was the first to create an autonomous electric truck that could be circular by a public square, the Mayor of the people responds equipadamentably that run Tesla, Waymo de Alphabet, Uber or Lyft.
But none of the big manufacturers of coaches or trucks, Einride’s, a ‘startup’ was founded in 2016. The co-founder of the company, Linnéa Kornehed, 29 years old, confirmed her remarks in an interview with Forbes that day after Elon Musk announced the launch of the Tesla Semi, his company launched its first autonomous electric truck, called Pod.
The detailed company that Einride had created during the last few years has counted on one hundred employees and has collected a total of 41 million dollars in financing. In addition, it is collaborating with large companies such as Coca-Cola, Lidl, the Oatly food brand or the Ericsson telecommunications multinational.
Einride Business Model
While Apple, the ‘startup’ is looking to design, technology and the brand of its trucks, as well as to control the entire chain in which production, assembly and logistics are contracted. Without embarrassment, Kornehed underscored that, “in the background, Einride is essentially a ‘software’ business.”
The company has adopted the Transport as a Service Model (TaaS, by its English flags), which means that its customers do not buy their vehicles, meaning that they subscribe to a monthly service. The company explained that the choice of this innovative model of radio negotiation in the specific characteristics of autonomous and electric conduct.
“Thus, autonomous management, such as electricity, requires careful and systematic planning. The best way to do this is to have a fleet, in order to have global planning that is efficient, secure and that maximizes the autonomy and scope of the possibilities. “, detail. Based on the TaaS model, the ‘software’ platform and a control room, the team can plan much more efficiently than the ones that can make individual transport companies and, in this way, help to reduce money and reduce emissions , aggregate.
Sale of autonomous electric trucks
Kornehed underscores that currently “the cargo transport by car is responsible for 7% of global emissions of greenhouse gas emissions”, means that “the volume of merchandise sent increases to a rate of 3-4% each year”. According to the company, the use of autonomous electric trucks could reduce CO2 emissions by 90% and operating costs by 60%, while radically increasing vial security.
The company agrees that “logistics and transport are very important in the current global economy”, as well as their journeys, because “we must be able to maintain everything, in a responsible and sustainable way”.
According to Kornehed, Einride wants to exemplify and demonstrate that the transformation of the transport of electric and autonomous markets is within the scope of mano. Detail that the next steps of the company will indicate its operations in EE.UU. y expand more from Europe.
“We hope to show the people and companies that it is possible to make a change. But the change is not produced alone. To log in all that we have done only five years with our ‘startup’, we hope to inspire others to take his own sustainability initiatives “, concluded.
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