Tesla expands Robotaxi fleet 50%, Einride partners for L4 trucks, China deploys thousands

On this second consecutive self-steering episode of Quick Charge, we take a look at how Tesla increased its national self-driving Robotaxi fleet by half with the stroke of a pen, and see how the company’s autonomous deployments compare to the rest of the world’s.

We’ve also got some news from autonomous freight and logistics experts Einride, who have Level 4 autonomous heavy trucks operating in Europe and, more recently, Ohio – but they’re just scratching the surface, because China has literally THOUSANDS of fully autonomous ultra heavy haul trucks operating in mines, today.

You can check those out in the source articles linked, below, then let us know what you think how the hype stacks up against reality in the comments.

Source Links

• Nevada caps Tesla’s Vegas ‘Robotaxi’ fleet at 10 — it asked for 5,000
• PACCAR brand DAF to add Level 4 Einride autonomy to its electric trucks
• Forget Tesla hype — Einride begins public L4 autonomous electric semi operations
• Einride L4 autonomous electric semi truck gets real – in Ohio
• 350-ton Longking ZL230E is the biggest, baddest battery mining rig you can buy
• Electric, autonomous, and there’s 800 of them: inside this week’s BIGGEST deal
• This mine put 100 autonomous electric haul trucks to work – here’s how it went

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