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Kodiak Robotics resisted the temptation of going public during the heady days of SPACs, preferring to raise money from venture capital. Now, as its list of partnerships and technology breakthroughs grows, Kodiak is gaining a reputation as a leader in high-level autonomy shedding the late-comer label. Join Don Burnette, Co-Founder & CEO of Kodiak Robotics, and Alan Adler, Detroit Bureau Chief at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves' Jack Daleo and Tim Reeser of Lightning eMotors talk everything EVs, from common misconceptions to challenges for adoption and everything in between. You'll also hear about the latest technology from Lightning eMotors, including zero emissions vans, electric powertrains and charging stations.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rakesh Aneja, Vice President and Chief of eMobility at Daimler Truck North America knows the limitations of infrastructure for electric trucks. They need more time and power to charge than passenger cars, which is one reason Daimler Truck and two other entities are committing $650 million for medium- and heavy-duty truck charging.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are talking to some of the brightest minds in the industry to discuss the accelerating pace of electrification and autonomous trucking. What are the policy implications of electric and autonomous vehicles? How can AI and simulations offer a safer way forward for the development of autonomous trucking? All these questions and more answered!They’re joined by Don Burnette, Co-Founder & CEO at Kodiak Robotics; Matt Horton, CEO at Voltera; Wiley Deck, VP of Government Affairs & Policy at Plus; Finch Fulton, VP of Policy & Strategy at Locomation; Frank Mabry, Freight Network Analyst at Torc and special guest co-host Alan Adler, Detroit Bureau Chief at FreightWaves. Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaylee Nix, Reporter at FreightWaves, and Olivia Hu, Senior Business Development Manager at Uber Freight, talk about the necessity of a deep digital network and strong industry partnerships to create a successful roll out of autonomous vehicle technology.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal and state policy makers are preparing to roll out rules and guidelines governing autonomous vehicles, and Congress recently approved new climate legislation – both will have cost and market implications for truck fleets and drivers. ACT Research’s Ann Rundle provides an update on what these changes will mean for the industry in this fireside chat with FreightWaves’ John Gallagher.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rise and fall of special purpose acquisition companies has been swift and brutal for some of the young companies enticed to go public before they were ready for the harsh realities of life under Wall Street scrutiny. Understanding what happened with SPACs means understand SPACs from the beginning. Vince Cubbage of Tortoise Acquisition, which has sponsored two SPACs and is lining up a third, brings his perspectives as the Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit keynote speaker.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow FreightWaves LIVE on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves LIVE on SpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsJoin The Autonomous & Electric Vehicle Summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sadaya Morris is the owner of Pink Transportation and a leader in the movement to get more women involved in trucking Sign up for the Back The Truck Up Newsletter and get up to date information on the stories here, for truckers, by truckers!Sign up for the Back The Truck Up Newsletter and get up to date information on the stories here, for truckers, by truckers!Check out BackTheTruckUp.com and find us on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube!Visit our sponsorApple PodcastSpotifyBack The Truck Up YouTubeBack The Truck Up TikTok Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The auto industry’s goals for zero-emission sales in the next decade are ambitious, and it will need more raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements than ever before. Evi Petavratzi, senior mineral commodity geologist for the British Geological Survey, explains why we should have started building more mines a decade ago, and, since we didn’t, what we can do to hurry things along.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow Transmission on Apple PodcastsFollow Transmission on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaylee Nix talks to Lucas Systems about what warehouse workers are saying about the state of automation and how they want their jobs to change in the future.Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.Follow At Your Doorstep on Apple PodcastsFollow At Your Doorstep on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices