Pony.ai Unveils Gen-4 Autonomous Trucks, Targets 2026 Deployment

• Pony.ai’s Gen-4 trucks cut per-vehicle BOM costs by 70% and are designed for a 1 million-kilometer service life.
• The battery-electric models feature Robotaxi-grade redundancy and are set for mass deployment starting in 2026.

Pony.ai has launched its fourth-generation autonomous truck lineup, developed with SANY Truck and other partners. The system uses only automotive-grade components and cuts the per-vehicle bill-of-materials cost by about 70% from the previous version. It reuses most components from the company’s latest Robotaxi and is built to last 20,000 hours or up to 1 million kilometers.

The Gen-4 trucks adopt the same fully redundant design and safety architecture used in Pony.ai’s latest Robotaxi. Each vehicle features a drive-by-wire chassis with redundant systems across steering, braking, communication, power, computing, and sensors. The models are built on battery-electric platforms and engineered for mass production at the thousand-unit scale, with deployment expected in 2026.

Since entering the autonomous truck market in 2018, Pony.ai has grown its fleet to about 200 trucks and recorded over 1 billion ton-kilometers in freight transport. According to Pony.ai, the company has secured the first, or among the first, road test permits and commercial freight licenses for autonomous trucks in multiple regions across China.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

By adapting its Robotaxi platform for freight, Pony.ai is turning years of passenger AV development into a fast track for scalable, electric autonomous trucking.

Source: PR Newswire / Pony.ai