Aurora adds 500-truck Charger MOU toward 30,000-truck goal

Aurora Innovation signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding Monday under which Charger Logistics intends to buy up to 500 Aurora Driver-powered trucks, with deliveries over 2027 and 2028. The deal builds on a contract Charger signed in July to start driverless hauls between Dallas and Laredo, Texas.

Under a final agreement, Charger would own the trucks and pay Aurora for the driving through its Driver as a Service model. Carrier-owned fleets are central to Aurora’s plan to run more than 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030.

Aurora now expects to pass 200 driverless trucks by the end of February, with its production ramp about six weeks behind plan. It still expects more than 1,000 by the end of 2027. In April, Hirschbach Motor Lines signed a nonbinding MOU to own 500 Aurora trucks under the same ownership model.

Charger’s president tied the larger order to its first months running autonomous trucks on the border lane.

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