Einride orders 500 Tesla Semis—the automaker’s biggest electric truck order to date

Einride offers Freight Capacity as a Service—a turnkey package that includes electric trucks, charging depot infrastructure and software to coordinate it all. The company’s cabless autonomous truck may be still awaiting its moment, but Einride is already operating substantial numbers of electric semi-trucks (250 at last count) from Peterbilt and BYD on behalf of some major shippers.

Now Einride is planning to add Tesla Semis to its US fleet—some 500 of them in fact, the largest known order for Tesla’s electric truck to date.

The e-trucks will serve Amazon and other Einride customers in North America—specifically in California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois and Georgia. The deployment will be carried out in multiple phases over the next 24 months, starting in September, and will be “fully financed with third-party financing solutions.”

Einride will use its Saga software platform for routing. “As electric trucks introduce operating variables, such as charging time and energy costs that shift situationally, they require a sophisticated logistics approach to execute,” Einride explains. “Saga AI optimizes a fleet of individual electric trucks into a coordinated network that is more efficient, more reliable and more cost-efficient to run. Every additional truck and mile adds more operating data back into the platform, so the network’s efficiency compounds over time.”

“This deployment is yet another proof point that we can execute at the scale our customers demand,” said Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli. “Working closely with Tesla to bring next-generation Semis into active operations quickly and at scale is a testament to the strength of that partnership, and how quickly this technology is maturing from promise to daily operations.”

Source: Einride via Electrek