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Aurora Innovation targets 30,000 driverless trucks, $5B revenue by 2030. Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) used its 2026 Analyst and Investor Day to outline plans to expand its driverless trucking operations, scale hardware production and pursue an asset-light Driver-as-a-Service model aimed at supporting more than 30,000 trucks by 2030. Co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson said Aurora has moved beyond discussing when autonomous trucking could arrive and is now operating driverless trucks in daily commercial service. He said the company expects to have 200 driverless trucks on the road by the end of 2026, operating for customers on existing routes. Urmson said Aurora's strategy centers on trucking because of the sector's driver shortages, safety challenges, operating-cost pressures and existing infrastructure. He said the company's technology can enable trucks to operate around the clock, improve asset utilization and reduce labor, fuel and insurance costs. Aurora said that, in long-haul applications with Werner and McLane, its trucks are operating at an annualized rate of 225,000 miles, while a short-haul deployment with Detmar Logistics has doubled daily trips. Customers cite safety and utilization. During a customer panel, executives from Werner, McLane and Detmar Logistics described safety, reliability and utilization as central factors in adopting autonomous trucking. Daragh Mahon, executive vice president and CIO of Werner, said the carrier had become comfortable with Aurora's safety case and technology, while noting that reliability will need to be demonstrated over substantially more miles. Mahon said Werner views autonomous trucks as complementary to drivers, particularly for long and difficult middle-mile routes, rather than as a replacement for the company's workforce. Eric Hildenbrand, McLane's chief legal, strategy and administration officer, said the company sees autonomous trucks as a way to support its middle-mile freight movements while preserving drivers for final-mile work, including store deliveries that require unloading. Hildenbrand said McLane has seen strong uptime so far, though he characterized the deployment as early. Matt Detmar, CEO of Detmar Logistics, said the company is using Aurora's technology on a roughly 60-mile loop in the Permian Basin. He said autonomous operations have increased truckloads per day from an average of two to 2.5 to five to six, improving tractor and trailer utilization. Detmar said his company expects to move into the hundreds of autonomous trucks over the next several years as it expands the deployment. Aurora President Ossa Fisher said the company's analysis, using American Transportation Research Institute data, indicates customer savings of more than 20%, or about $0.40 per mile, compared with traditional solo-driver operations. She said Aurora is seeing roughly 10% fuel-efficiency improvements on current lanes and sees potential for up to 15%, depending on route and freight type. Hardware production and OEM partnerships. Senior Vice President of Hardware Products Sandor Barna said Aurora's second-generation hardware is being manufactured by Fabrinet in Thailand and was designed to reduce unit costs by about 50% while targeting 1 million miles of reliability. Aurora said it is ramping production to more than 50 hardware kits per week this year. Roush is outfitting trucks with Aurora's hardware at a dedicated facility in Livonia, Michigan. Brad Keselowski, co-owner of Roush, said the operation had added a second shift and was on track to reach capacity of 20 trucks per week, or roughly 1,000 annually. Barna also highlighted Aurora's line-side integration with Volvo's VNL Autonomous truck platform. Sasko Cuklev, head of on-road solutions at Volvo Autonomous Solutions, said Volvo expects to begin driverless operations powered by the Aurora Driver in the first quarter of 2027 and exit that year with more than 300 trucks in operation. Aurora is also developing a third-generation hardware kit with AUMOVIO. The companies said their Hardware-as-a-Service arrangement will charge hardware costs on a per-mile basis, avoiding upfront capital expenditures for fleet customers. Aurora expects the third-generation system to enter production in the second half of 2027, with material economic benefits beginning in 2028. Financial targets and insurance outlook. CFO David Maday said Aurora expects to shift its primary growth model to Driver-as-a-Service in 2027, under which carriers own and operate trucks while Aurora provides the driving technology. The company expects its Transportation-as-a-Service fleet, in which Aurora owns and operates the vehicles, to be limited to roughly 500 trucks. * Aurora expects to exit 2026 with 200 driverless trucks, representing an estimated $80 million Transportation-as-a-Service revenue run rate. * It expects to end 2027 with more than 1,000 trucks and approximately $200 million in revenue. * The company targets positive gross profit on a run-rate basis in the first half of 2027 and positive free cash flow on a run-rate basis in 2028, with roughly 7,500 trucks operating. * By 2030, Aurora projects more than 30,000 trucks, over $5 billion in revenue and gross margins above 60%, with a longer-term goal of about 70%. Maday said Driver-as-a-Service trucks are expected to average about 250,000 miles annually, compared with roughly 200,000 for Aurora-owned Transportation-as-a-Service trucks. Aurora expects pricing in its Driver-as-a-Service model to be $0.85 or more per mile, versus roughly $2 per mile including fuel surcharge for the Transportation-as-a-Service model. On insurance, Chris Moore, chief underwriting officer at Apollo ibott, said autonomous truck insurance pricing is currently somewhat above human-driver pricing because of uncertainty around claim severity and litigation. However, he said insurance rates for autonomous vehicles should decline as mileage and performance data accumulate. Moore said Apollo evaluates autonomous systems based on their use case, operating domain, operating history and safety culture. Urmson said Aurora is beginning to assess potential international and adjacent-market opportunities while keeping its core focus on U.S. freight. He identified Japan, Korea and the Gulf region as potential international markets and cited smaller truck classes, robotaxis and off-highway mining as possible future applications for Aurora's technology. About Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR). Aurora Innovation, Inc develops autonomous vehicle technology designed to transport people and goods without human drivers. Its core product, the Aurora Driver, combines artificial intelligence, sensors, mapping, and other software and hardware systems to enable automated driving across trucking, ride-hailing, and logistics applications. The company is initially focused on autonomous trucking, where its technology is intended to support long-haul freight operations and improve safety, efficiency, and vehicle utilization.

AUMOVIO unveils its new braking system and receives first series order. Petre Barac Posted On September 10, 2026 1.7K Views Technology company AUMOVIO is unveiling the distributed brake system, the latest generation of its electrohydraulic brakes, delivering greater performance in a compact design. The first order from a major Chinese vehicle manufacturer has already been received, with production scheduled to start at the end of 2027. The distributed brake combines an advanced one box brake with an Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system. It operates fully electronically from the brake pedal through to the fallback level and makes use of modern electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures. This allows the actuators to be designed smaller and lighter. The system frees up valuable installation space - for example, for a larger high-voltage battery - and enables more flexible actuator placement in the vehicle. At the same time, the distributed brake delivers greater performance than previous one box systems, making it particularly suitable for demanding applications such as highly automated driving. "The mobility of the future is automated, electric, and increasingly based on new vehicle architectures. This transformation will not happen overnight, but step by step. With our solutions ranging from electrohydraulic to fully dry braking systems, our customers can draw on a very broad product portfolio. The new distributed brake system expands this portfolio even further. It gives our customers even greater flexibility, efficiency, and powerful performance. With its first series order, our new system is taking an important step toward high-volume production." - Boris Mergell, Head of the Safety and Motion business area at AUMOVIO For the distributed brake system, AUMOVIO leverages the E/E architecture of modern vehicles. It includes multiple power supply points and redundant electrical networks. Such architecture meets the requirements for braking systems without a hydraulic fallback, which must be equipped with a redundant system including its own electrical circuit. Since the driver's braking commands are transmitted electrically and no hydraulic fallback with a mechanical connection to the driver is required, almost all braking system components - except for the electronic brake pedal - can be positioned freely in the front section of the vehicle. This flexibility supports new vehicle concepts and enables optimized use of installation space, for example using larger batteries that extend vehicle range. The distributed brake system is suitable for many different vehicle types, as not only fully electric and hybrid vehicles but also many new combustion-engine vehicles are equipped with such redundant E/E architectures. The absence of a mechanical-hydraulic connection between the brake pedal and braking system provides further benefits for the distributed brake system. For example, the air gap between the brake disc and brake caliper can be increased because brake pressure in the fallback level is built up electronically with greater precision and speed than before. This reduces unwanted friction between the brake disc and brake caliper. At the same time, a single e-pedal braking system can be used for a wide range of vehicle architectures. Instead of slightly different variants, for example for left- or right-hand drive, combustion-engine or electric vehicles, all vehicles can be equipped with the same e-pedal braking solution. This significantly reduces the number of variants and helps lower development, manufacturing, and logistics costs for both suppliers and car manufacturers.

IAA Transportation 2026: AUMOVIO to unveil VDO charging solutions (also) for e-bus depots. AUMOVIO is expanding into charging infrastructure with a new VDO-branded portfolio combining AC and DC chargers with vehicle technology and digital fleet management, including applications for electric bus depots. The new solutions will make their debut at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover and are designed for commercial vehicle fleets operating electric buses, trucks and special-purpose [...] 9 September 2026 By Editorial staff AUMOVIO is expanding into charging infrastructure with a new VDO-branded portfolio combining AC and DC chargers with vehicle technology and digital fleet management, including applications for electric bus depots. The new solutions will make their debut at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover and are designed for commercial vehicle fleets operating electric buses, trucks and special-purpose vehicles at depots, fleet yards and company sites, according to information reported by its sister media Sustainable Truck & Van. The portfolio extends AUMOVIO's activities from onboard vehicle technologies into charging infrastructure and its integration with fleet operations. For bus operators, the offering combines physical charging equipment with vehicle and charging data through the VDO Fleet Ecosystem. AUMOVIO became an independent company in September 2025 following the spin-off of Continental's former Automotive group sector. The technology and electronics company develops solutions across vehicle safety, connectivity, electronics and automated and autonomous driving. The company is also active in bus and coach components with ProViu Mirror, a digital rear-view system using high-resolution cameras and in-cab displays to replace conventional exterior mirrors. AUMOVIO targets electric bus depots with VDO charging infrastructure. The new VDO charging infrastructure portfolio includes AC and DC charging stations, ranging from mobile charging equipment to high-power systems for fleet applications. Electric bus depots are among the applications specifically identified by AUMOVIO, alongside logistics and distribution operations, municipal and industrial fleets and company sites. Charging installations can also be combined with energy infrastructure including photovoltaic generation and battery storage. The charging equipment is designed to connect with the VDO Fleet Ecosystem rather than operate as a standalone infrastructure layer. Data from vehicles, chargers and other digital applications can be combined within the platform, providing information on charging status, energy consumption, vehicle availability and active charging sessions. For bus fleet operations, the system can therefore provide information on which vehicles are available and which require charging, while charging sessions can be coordinated with daily fleet schedules. Partner solutions can additionally provide data about charger availability within the depot. The new charging portfolio adds an infrastructure component to AUMOVIO's existing commercial vehicle technologies, which already include vehicle-to-charger communication control units, energy and charging management systems, battery and onboard electrical functions. VDO Fleet Ecosystem connects vehicle and charging data. The VDO Fleet Ecosystem provides the digital layer connecting the new charging equipment with information generated by vehicles and other fleet applications. AUMOVIO says the approach is intended for fleet environments where vehicle availability, charging requirements and operational schedules have to be managed together. The company is addressing both charging infrastructure and the exchange of information between the vehicle, charger and fleet management platform. AUMOVIO also supplies OEM technologies covering battery and energy management and charging communication, together with software and engineering services for vehicle integration and validation. Its IAA Transportation portfolio will additionally include battery management systems, cell contacting systems and DC/DC converters. With the addition of VDO-branded charging infrastructure, the company's commercial vehicle portfolio now covers onboard components, vehicle-to-charger communication, physical charging equipment and fleet management software. The solutions will be presented as part of AUMOVIO's commercial vehicle technology portfolio at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, scheduled for September 14 to 20. In brief. * Is AUMOVIO entering the electric bus charging market? Yes. Electric bus depots are among the applications identified for its new VDO-branded AC and DC charging portfolio. * What information can be managed through the VDO Fleet Ecosystem? The platform can combine charging status, energy consumption, vehicle availability and active charging-session data. * Does AUMOVIO also provide onboard charging technology? Yes. Its portfolio includes vehicle-to-charger communication, energy and charging management and battery-related technologies. * Where will the new VDO charging solutions be presented? At IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, taking place from September 14 to 20. "Electrification in commercial vehicles is primarily a matter of cost-effectiveness, scalability, and feasibility in real-world operations," said Georg Fässler, head of the Commercial and Special Vehicles segment at AUMOVIO. "In fleet operations, charging must work simply and reliably," said Georg Kliewer, head of special vehicles in AUMOVIO's Commercial and Special Vehicles segment. "Together with our partners, we link infrastructure, vehicle data, and services so that operators can better manage their processes and vehicles can remain available."