Pony.ai announced partnerships with SANY Heavy Trucks and Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor to jointly develop a fourth-generation family of autonomous trucks. The first two models will be based on the partners’ most advanced all-electric platforms and are planned for mass production at a scale of around a thousand units, with initial operations expected to start next year. The series aims to advance autonomous trucking technology and accelerate the industry’s move toward large-scale unmanned commercial operations. Pony.ai’s fourth-generation autonomous truck kit will use entirely automotive-grade components and share most parts with its next-generation Robotaxi system, cutting the per-vehicle autonomous driving BOM cost by roughly 70% compared with the previous generation. [Pony.ai, in Chinese]
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