Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) is trying to move from autonomous-truck commercialization toward profitability by rapidly expanding its driverless fleet.
Aurora expects 2026 revenue of $14 million to $16 million and an $80 million exit revenue run rate.
Driverless Fleet Expansion Could Unlock Operating Leverage for Aurora The strongest argument for Aurora Innovation, Inc. is that fleet expansion could materially improve its economics.
Aurora May Need More Capital Before its Economics Fully Scale Aurora Innovation, Inc. still has a substantial financial gap to close.
Conclusion Aurora Innovation, Inc.’s latest plans establish a clearer path from limited commercial operations to a potentially high-margin DaaS business.
Sep 27, 2026 · via insidermonkey.com
Gross margin breakeven moves to 2027 By the end of 2027, Aurora expects more than 1,000 trucks and roughly $200 million in revenue.
“30,000 trucks does sound like a lot to some people.
Aurora expects those trucks to average roughly 200,000 miles a year at about $2 per mile, including a fuel surcharge.
Maday expects miles per truck to climb closer to 250,000 a year as carriers run the trucks through their own networks.
He said 10% to 15% of his trucks’ miles are sometimes off-road, which puts maintenance at the center of the ownership decision.
Sep 27, 2026 · via freightwaves.com
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Sep 27, 2026 · via statesman.com
Abstract According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Mining Material Handling Equipment market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture.
The global mining material handling equipment market is entering a transformative phase as the extractive industries pivot toward energy transition metals and operational decarbonization.
The baseline scenario for the world mining material handling equipment market from 2026 to 2035 anticipates steady expansion, supported by sustained capital expenditure in mining projects and the accelerating shift toward critical minerals extraction.
Underground Mining (estimated share: 20%) Underground mining operations require specialized material handling equipment that can operate in confined spaces and harsh conditions.
Market Outlook (2026-2035) In the baseline scenario, IndexBox estimates a 4.5% compound annual growth rate for the global mining material handling equipment market over 2026-2035, bringing the market index to roughly 155 by 2035 (2025=100).
Sep 27, 2026 · via indexbox.io
Evercore ISI added Aurora to its Tactical Outperform list on September 15, ahead of the Investor Day, citing potential for a 10% to 15% near term move in the stock.
The September 23 Investor Day gave bulls a number to underwrite: more than 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030, at gross margins CFO David Maday compared to a software business.
The firm called the Investor Day an incremental positive but said the driverless demos and OEM participation on display also pointed to a slower, costlier ramp than previously modeled.
D E Shaw, the largest holder, cut its stake 24% to 22.4 million shares worth $152.6 million, while Durable Capital Partners grew its position 633% to 10.9 million shares worth $74.3 million.
Short interest remains on the higher side at 17.98% of the float as of September 15, 2026, up from 174.94 million shares a month earlier to 198.26 million shares.
Sep 27, 2026 · via insidermonkey.com
In the United States, a bizarre incident occurred in which thieves stole a large trailer bearing the logo of Nvidia, an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, only to discover that it was filled with sand.
This sand was research cargo, loaded to match weight for testing the transportation capabilities of autonomous trucks instead of actual goods.
The company suggested that the perpetrators might have assumed the trailers contained valuable AI equipment upon seeing the Nvidia and PlusAI logos.
Wired reported that there has been a rise in organized thefts targeting trucks transporting AI data center equipment.
Servers and network equipment used in AI data centers have also become targets of theft.
Sep 27, 2026 · via asiae.co.kr
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And don’t forget just last week the U.S.-based autonomous vehicle company May Mobility said it planned to go public via a merger with a blank-check company.
Sep 27, 2026 · via techcrunch.com
The Semi didn’t lift the stock, but the same stretch brought an analyst target cut and a European regulatory delay.
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CFO Vaibhav Taneja said the quarter’s sequential rise in operating expenses included “preproduction ramp costs for new products like the Semi truck, Optimus, Cybercab and other AI initiatives.”
The first useful read is Q3 earnings, expected in late October, if Tesla starts disclosing Semi units.
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Sep 26, 2026 · via tikr.com
The more than 3 Mt of autonomously hauled material builds on Volvo Autonomous Solutions’ move from pilots to industrial production noted in the 2025 Säffle plant piece, signalling that the Volvo FH Autonomous platform is now accumulating substantial real-world operating hours for mines and quarries.
In our database of Mining ‘Projects’ and ‘Product’ stories, Volvo Autonomous Solutions appears repeatedly alongside specific deployments such as Brønnøy Kalk’s Velfjord limestone mine and Boliden’s Garpenberg tailings work, suggesting the company is positioning itself as a niche provider for brownfield retrofit autonomy rather than only greenfield mega-fleet rollouts.
The Letter of Intent with Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB for the Kallak/Gállok iron ore project, combined with this multi‑million‑tonne haulage milestone, likely gives V.A.S.
a stronger reference case when bidding for autonomous haulage contracts in remote or Arctic operations where reliability and OEM integration are critical selection factors.
Sep 26, 2026 · via geomechanics.io
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Sep 26, 2026 · via simplywall.st
Insider Brief SoftBank Group invested $225 million in Autonomous Solutions Inc. and formed a joint venture with the industrial automation company to develop and commercialize autonomous construction equipment for large infrastructure projects.
SoftBank Group invested $225 million in Autonomous Solutions Inc. and formed a joint venture with the industrial automation company to develop and commercialize autonomous construction equipment.
According to ASI, the joint venture will focus on large infrastructure projects and construction use cases, including civil construction and material handling.
SoftBank also capitalized the venture to support deployment of the technology at commercial scale.
“This joint venture with SoftBank positions ASI at the forefront of autonomous construction innovation—built for scale, engineered for longevity, and open to every major equipment brand on the jobsite,” added Torrie.
Sep 26, 2026 · via theaiinsider.tech
Kodiak AI has selected the Dallas-Houston corridor as the first long-haul highway lane where it plans to launch fully driverless commercial trucking operations, the company announced Friday.
Texas Becomes Launch Site Kodiak has long identified Texas as its preferred market for its first on-highway driverless deployment.
Driverless Operations Already Underway In Permian Basin Kodiak already operates driverless trucks without humans in the cab in a different environment.
Kodiak has not announced an exact date for removing the human safety driver from its Dallas-Houston long-haul operations.
If Kodiak meets that timetable, the Dallas-Houston corridor will add another fully driverless commercial freight operation to one of the country’s most active autonomous-trucking markets.
Sep 25, 2026 · via dallasexpress.com
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), the AI chipmaker, will supply the computing platform and AI tools behind Einride's push to put more driverless trucks on the road.
Shares moves lower to $224.80 at roughly 10:50 a.m.
The deal gives Nvidia another route into physical AI, though its financial payoff is still unclear.
Neither company has said how much Nvidia technology each truck will carry or when the partnership might produce meaningful revenue.
The test is how many trucks enter serviceand how much Nvidia earns from each one.
Sep 25, 2026 · via finance.yahoo.com
PITTSBURGH — Aurora Innovation Inc. announced plans to have tens of thousands of driverless trucks on the roads by the end of the decade.
Strip District-headquartered Aurora (NADAQ: AUR) organized its annual Analyst and Investor Day on Wednesday and announced that it is on track to have 30,000 driverless trucks on the road by the end of 2030.
“Today, Aurora and the freight industry are at a point of inflection,” CEO Chris Urmson said during the presentation.
We can talk about how it’s happening on the road today.
The inflection point is more than just trucking — Aurora is at an inflection point in how it does business.
Sep 25, 2026 · via wpxi.com
Toronto-based autonomous vehicle company Waabi says its self-driving transport truck is ready to hit the road.
Ron said that Waabi is just waiting for Volvo, the Swedish automaker it’s partnered with, to finish the final validation work on its upcoming autonomous truck.
From the source: “The system is highly, highly, highly mature in the initial deployment area in Texas,” Ron said.
Waabi sped up its efforts to commercialize self-driving trucks earlier this year with a $750 million USD ($1.02 billion CAD) Series C round.
Just over a year later at Nrth, Ron expressed a more optimistic view about Waabi’s Canadian future.
Sep 25, 2026 · via betakit.com
Tesla has opened its first dedicated plant in Sparks, Nevada, to mass-produce its Semi heavy-duty electric truck.
In the United States, electrification of commercial vehicles is also drawing attention as diesel prices remain high.
Swedish freight technology company Einride also decided last month to order 500 Tesla Semi trucks.
He mentioned a shortage of truck drivers and said autonomous Semi trucks would be important to addressing the U.S. freight transport labor shortage.
The ICCT said shifting to zero-emission commercial vehicles can reduce air pollution and may also help cut vehicle operating costs.
Sep 25, 2026 · via digitaltoday.co.kr
Kodiak AI and Fresno, California-based DTL Transport have completed their first produce deliveries using an autonomous truck in California, with a human safety driver behind the wheel.
The runs follow a change in California regulations that opened public roads to testing of heavy-duty autonomous trucks.
Kodiak received a state permit August 13 to test with a safety driver.
What DTL and Kodiak Are Studying in the California Pilot Program For DTL, the pilot is a chance to see whether autonomous trucks could help it handle growing freight volumes when demand exceeds its available fleet capacity.
Separately, Kodiak says it plans to launch driverless operations on public highways in Texas by the end of 2026.
Sep 25, 2026 · via truckinginfo.com
Here are the headlines from this week in trucking: Kodiak completed its first autonomous truck hauls under the new California testing rules Autonomous truck developer Kodiak AI has completed its first autonomous truck deliveries with the California DMV testing permit.
Kodiak also entered a partnership with PrePass this week to facilitate autonomous truck bypass processes.
Waabi put another autonomous route under its belt Another autonomous truck developer, Waabi, successfully ran a haul with its autonomous driver in Texas, from Dallas to San Antonio on I-35.
Fleets keep increasing driver pay rates As the hiring market for drivers remains tight, a few carriers have announced increases to their driver pay lately: K&B Transportation bumped the pay for its Road Warrior over-the-road drivers from 70 cents to 82 cents per mile.
Roehl Transport issued a press release announcing another increase in driver pay but did not include per-mile pay details.
Sep 25, 2026 · via fleetowner.com
Whoever stole a pair of trailers plastered with company logos for Nvidia and PlusAI this week in Fremont probably thought they’d scored a fortune in high-tech hardware. What they actually got was a bunch of sand. About 40,000 pounds of it. Two trailers belonging to PlusAI — a self-driving trucking company headquartered in Santa Clara — were pilfered late Wednesday from the docks of its Fremont warehouse, police and a company official confirmed. The trailers held a combined 20 tons of sand, which the company uses to simulate real freight during research and development, according to Jocelyn Ren, a senior marketing manager. Warehouse workers discovered the theft early Thursday, reporting it to the Fremont Police Department just after 9:30 a.m. The locks on the trailers’ glad hands — the couplings that link the air brakes to the truck — appeared to have been forced off, the company said. The PlusAI cabs that normally pull the test trailers were parked elsewhere on the property and appeared untouched. Security footage shows two unidentified tractors driving around the warehouse, according to Lauren Kwan, the company’s vice president of marketing. “Those were not our tractors,” she said. “Those were from the thieves.” The company began filing police and insurance reports. Then, just hours after reporting the theft, a break came from an unlikely source. PlusAI’s vice president of legal got a text from a friend with a photo of the trailers parked outside an office in Newark — minutes from where they’d been stolen. “I have been proud of you for your adventure and success at Plus,” the friend wrote. “Just saw two of your trucks near my work place! :)” PlusAI sent its fleet operations team to confirm that the trailers were still in Newark and alerted the cops. Newark police officers recovered
Sep 25, 2026 · via sfstandard.com
Louisiana licensing officials plead guilty in bribery scheme All six defendants involved in a bribery scheme that enabled more than 100 people to fraudulently obtain commercial driver’s licenses have now pleaded guilty, announced U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle.
Jenay Davis pleaded guilty on Sept. 2 and Christopher Bryan Burns and Shakera Millien pleaded guilty on Sept. 9.
The other defendants -- Mahmoud Alhattab, Jonathan Parsons, and Marline Roberts -- pleaded guilty on July 29.
As reported following the first three guilty pleas, Alhattab admitted to being the ringleader of the scheme in which CDL applicants each paid him on average roughly $5,000 to receive unearned CDLs.
The new WY22 SAFE PASS program is aimed at improving driver awareness of the challenges of mountain pass driving.
Sep 24, 2026 · via overdriveonline.com