EVwire brief: Einride's cab-less, driverless electric trucks are now running daily freight operations in Ohio, with EASE Logistics using two of the SAE Level 4 autonomous trucks to move freight between its warehouses in Marysville.
The trucks run scheduled routes on EASE property and local public roads with no one in the cab. A remote operator monitors each truck off-site and can step in if needed. The deployment builds on the companies' May 2026 announcement and has been generating data on safety, reliability and efficiency since last month.
Einride and EASE plan to use that data, including miles driven, loads moved and uptime, to guide the next phase of the deployment. The numbers will also feed into talks with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and prospective logistics partners about scaling autonomous freight across the region.
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Einride announced the milestone on LinkedIn:
Einride CTO Henrik Green said daily operations in Marysville show how far the company's autonomous stack has come:
This deployment reflects the maturity of our purpose-built autonomous stack, combining driverless operation with remote oversight to run safely in real-world operations. Daily operations in Marysville give us the proof points we need to keep expanding autonomous freight across the corridor and beyond.
EASE Logistics also celebrated the deal on LinkedIn:
The Marysville deployment is EASE's third autonomous trucking deployment with DriveOhio. EASE President and CEO Peter Coratola, Jr. said the company prefers putting new technology to work in actual operations:
EASE believes in leading through action and putting innovation to work in real-world operations. This deployment builds on that commitment while helping advance the adoption of autonomous freight across the transportation industry.
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Context:
The Einride-EASE deployment is part of the Truck Automation Corridor Project, an $8.8 million, multi-year initiative launched in 2021 by ODOT, DriveOhio and INDOT to prepare Ohio and Indiana's interstates for automated freight. The project centers on major state routes in both states, where different levels of truck automation are being deployed and studied, with goals that include improving safety, cutting fuel use and emissions, and getting fleets comfortable with automation.
Ohio is the latest addition to Einride's driverless operations. In September, Einride and Lidl put a cab-less Level 4 truck into daily service on a public road in Edermünde, Germany, under the country's first permit of its kind from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). A month earlier, Einride partnered with DAF to integrate its autonomous driving software into DAF's electric trucks.
Einride is also scaling up its electric fleet in the US. The company ordered 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon and other shippers, with CEO Roozbeh Charli stating that about 75 of those trucks would be deployed in 2026 and the rest by the end of 2027. Einride already runs a 75-truck electric deployment for Amazon.
Source: Einride, EASE Logistics, and Einride on LinkedIn
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