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IVECO and PlusAI bring Level 4 autonomous trucks onto the road

Artificial Intelligence in the cab

IVECO, the brand of Iveco Group N.V. for light, medium, and heavy commercial vehicles, announces together with the long-standing technology partner PlusAI the launch of a new Level 4 autonomous driving program. Real tests are to be conducted on a roughly 300-kilometer freight route in Spain later this year.
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THE KEY POINTS IN BRIEF
• IVECO and PlusAI are jointly developing Level 4 autonomous heavy-duty vehicles for use in European freight transport.
• Starting in 2026, two autonomous IVECO S-Way trucks will be tested on a roughly 300-kilometer freight route in Spain, in collaboration with Sesé.
• The project strengthens safety, efficiency, and sustainability in road freight transport and aims to underscore the technology strategy of the Iveco Group.

IVECO, the brand of Ive­co Group N.V., and Plu­sAI, a glob­al­ly oper­at­ing com­pa­ny for AI-based vir­tu­al dri­ver soft­ware for autonomous trucks, plan the first deploy­ment of heavy-duty vehi­cles with Lev­el 4 Autonomous Dri­ving Sys­tems (ADS) in South­ern Europe, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Span­ish logis­tics com­pa­ny Sesé and the Gov­ern­ment of Aragon, Spain.

Tests designed for several years

With­in the pro­gram, IVECO and Plu­sAI will devel­op two heavy-duty trucks equipped with Lev­el 4 autonomous dri­ving func­tions and con­trolled by the vir­tu­al dri­ver Plu­sAI Super­Drive. The autonomous trucks will be test­ed for sev­er­al years start­ing from 2026 – through­out the entire test­ing phase with a safe­ty dri­ver on board. These IVECO S‑Way heavy-duty vehi­cles are intend­ed to be used autonomous­ly on freight routes for the logis­tics com­pa­ny Sesé, par­tic­u­lar­ly between Madrid and Zaragoza, the cap­i­tal of the Aragon region, on a rough­ly 300-kilo­me­ter (184-mile) long trans­port cor­ri­dor.

Bringing vehicle automation forward

Mar­co Lic­car­do, Chief Tech­nol­o­gy & Dig­i­tal Offi­cer of the Ive­co Group, explains:
“Vehi­cle automa­tion is a cen­tral pil­lar of the Ive­co Group’s tech­nol­o­gy strat­e­gy. We are delight­ed to fur­ther strength­en our strong part­ner­ship with Plu­sAI to fur­ther devel­op our ADAS and ADS tech­nolo­gies in IVECO trucks. This project will advance us on our path to offer­ing our cus­tomers top-notch tech­nolo­gies for increas­ing­ly sus­tain­able trans­port.”

Shawn Ker­ri­g­an, COO and co-founder of Plu­sAI, adds: “Autonomous com­mer­cial vehi­cles are a trans­for­ma­tive tech­nol­o­gy that can sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve traf­fic safe­ty and can reshape com­mer­cial goods trans­port world­wide. We are proud to expand our part­ner­ship with IVECO to autonomous truck oper­a­tions at lev­el 4 in Ger­many and Spain. Togeth­er with Sesé, we demon­strate how autonomous dri­ving tech­nol­o­gy can improve the safe­ty, effi­cien­cy, and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of heavy-duty trans­port while also strength­en­ing the com­pet­i­tive­ness of Euro­pean sup­ply chains.”

Ive­co Group N.V. (EXM: IVG) unites for­ward-look­ing peo­ple and brands that sup­port com­pa­nies and mis­sions in advanc­ing a more sus­tain­able soci­ety. The com­pa­ny’s sev­en brands are each lead­ers in their respec­tive fields: IVECO, a pio­neer­ing brand for com­mer­cial vehi­cles, which designs, pro­duces, and mar­kets heavy, medi­um, and light com­mer­cial vehi­cles; FPT Indus­tri­al, a glob­al leader in mod­ern pow­er­train tech­nolo­gies in the fields of agri­cul­ture, con­struc­tion, marine, pow­er gen­er­a­tion, and com­mer­cial vehi­cles; IVECO BUS and HEULIEZ, brands for mass trans­porta­tion as well as pre­mi­um bus­es and tour­ing coach­es; IDV, spe­cial­ized in mil­i­tary and civ­il pro­tec­tion vehi­cles; ASTRA, lead­ing in heavy-duty vehi­cles for quar­ries and large con­struc­tion sites; IVECO CAPITAL, the financ­ing orga­ni­za­tion that sup­ports all brands.

The Ive­co Group employs 36,000 peo­ple world­wide and has 19 pro­duc­tion sites and 30 research and devel­op­ment cen­ters.

www.ivecogroup.com

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Erwin Kartnaller has been a fixture in Swiss trade journalism covering commercial vehicles and mobility for over four decades. After 16 years working for daily newspapers and family magazines, he moved into trade media and wrote for virtually every commercial vehicle magazine published in Switzerland, with very few exceptions. For nine and a half years, he was editor-in-chief of the Swiss Commercial Vehicle Association ASTAG's magazine, where his precise language and clear stance had a lasting impact on industry communication. This was followed by positions in the automotive industry, including at Eurotax autoinformation and aboutFLEET. He also wrote specialist articles for Auto&Wirtschaft and Auto Bild Schweiz. With his platform www.ekacom.com (http://www.ekacom.com/), he continued to wield his “sharp pen” – an independent voice for clear words and pointed commentary. In his last professional role as editor-in-chief of Polyscope, he immersed himself in the world of electronics – a field that is increasingly shaping mobility. Today, after his active professional life, Erwin Kartnaller is once again devoting himself entirely to his passion on the mobility-360.ch platform: mobility in all its facets.
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