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- Jul 4, 201785% CONFIDENCEfrom techcrunch.com · possible Jul 4, 2017 – Jan 1, 2020
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- Jan 2, 202025% CONFIDENCELow confidencefrom the source
Einride Launches a Prototype for Its Driverless Electric Truck T-Pod
- Swedish startup Einride unveiled a full-scale prototype of its fully electric, cab-less T-Pod truck in early July 2017 (TechCrunch 4 July, others 5 July)[1][3][4]
- Plan: 200 T-Pods running between Gothenburg and Helsingborg, Sweden, by 2020, moving up to 2,000,000 pallets a year, comparable to about 400,000 passenger cars' emissions on the same route[1][3][4]
- Einride is also building the remote control center and charging stations, and says the route might expand sooner given client demand; the prototype is not exactly the production design[1][3][4]
Notable features
- The T-Pod, later renamed the Einride pod and then the Autonomous Electric Truck, is designed from the ground up for driverless running and remote human operation, so it has no crew cabin, windows or seating, just a simple box form about 7 meters long that is small enough for urban areas[1][2][3][4]
- Range is about 124 miles and each truck carries 15 standard pallets; the article gives 20kWh capacity, while TechCrunch says 200 kWh[1][3][4]
- It is driverless but can be remotely controlled by a human operator, adding 'human flexibility and decision-making'; one driver could control several T-Pods[1][3][4]
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- [1]25%interestingengineering.com/einride-prototype-driverless-electric-truck-t-podinterestingengineering.com· Posted Jul 23, 2017· Starts Jan 1, 2020· Ends Jan 2, 2020 ✓· 0% of score
Date has passed, but interestingengineering.com does not confirm it happened then; unverified.
- [2]76%Einride - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 100% of score
Wikipedia's Einride article says the vehicle was "formerly known as the T-pod and later as the Einride pod", an electric truck "which does not contain a cabin".
- [3]82%Einride unveils futuristic T-pod autonomous electric truck prototypedesignboom.com· Published Jul 5, 2017· Starts Jul 4, 2017· 0% of score
Designboom independently corroborates the T-Pod prototype's July 2017 reveal.
- [4]85%Einride's T-Pod self-driving transport EV gets a full-scale prototypetechcrunch.com· Published Jul 4, 2017· Starts Jul 4, 2017 ✓· 0% of score
TechCrunch reports the T-Pod's first full-scale prototype was revealed on 4 July 2017 at Almedalen Week in Sweden, over two years before the pin's stored 1 January 2020.
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