Aurora’s truck production schedule delayed by supply, quality issues

Dive Brief: Aurora Innovation’s truck production ramp fell six weeks behind schedule due to material shortages and component quality issues, executives shared during the company’s Q3 earnings call Oct. 28.

The company expects to have built 200 trucks by February and more than 1,000 trucks by the end of 2027.

Preliminary builds completed before the company’s Sept. 23 investor day “were looking quite good,” Urmson said, but problems surfaced once production scaled.

Wire harnessing, for example, will be outsourced to a “more capable production supplier,” CFO David Maday said during the earnings call.

Aurora anticipates a cash spend of $250 million in Q4 as it continues to ramp production of its driverless fleet.