Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet
Swedish electric and autonomous trucking company Einride said Tuesday it plans to buy 500 Tesla Semis and make the electric big rigs available to Amazon and other customers. The Tesla Semis will be added in phases to Einride’s fleet over the next 24 months, starting in September, according to the company.
Einride will manage the Tesla Semis through its Saga AI software, a fleet management platform designed to give customers all the benefits of using electric trucks to carry freight without the financial and logistical burden that comes with owning them.
Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli said this “deployment is yet another proof point that we can execute at the scale our customers demand.”
And scale is what this deal promises, if Tesla can deliver. Tesla revealed a concept of the Semi in 2017 and five years later, after numerous delays due to the Covid pandemic and global supply chain shortages,...
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