Torc began 2025 – its twentieth anniversary yr – in an enormous approach, by making a splash at CES in Las Vegas, January 7-10, 2025. As friends of companion Aeva, one in every of Torc’s latest autonomous vans took middle stage within the sales space, sparking conversations and questions from CES attendees and guests.
Many sales space guests approached with questions from a freight firm proprietor/operator perspective, and spoke with Torc’s personal truck drivers, asking in regards to the truck and its know-how, in addition to product market entry, parameters, and software program availability. With the Torc truck available to behave because the Aeva show-and-tell instance, our Torc group fortunately defined using the Aeva sensors in visualizations. A wholesome portion of questions got here from worldwide attendees on the lookout for options to their very own provide chain points, proving autonomous trucking’s market continues to widen.
Moreover, the Aeva sales space hosted a panel, Deploying Autonomous Vans at Scale, moderated by Richard Bishop, of Bishop Consulting. Torc CEO Peter Vaughn Schmidt joined within the dialog, together with Joanna Buttler, the top of the worldwide autonomous know-how group at Daimler Truck, and Soroush Salehian, co-founder and CEO of Aeva.
“Partnerships are the spine of our work and our firm, and so being at CES with Aeva reveals the dedication we’ve to creating an autonomous ecosystem with know-how, freight logistics, and extra,” stated Walter Grigg, Buyer & Partnerships Administration Director.
“Beginning 2025 right here units our tempo for the yr,” stated Andrew Culhane, who celebrated his seventeenth Torc anniversary whereas at CES. “We ended 2024 on an upswing and we’re persevering with to get on the market, displaying what 20 years of Torc innovation is doing to drive the way forward for freight.”
An trade solely occasion, CES hosts displays of latest merchandise and applied sciences. The primary “Client Electronics Present” was held in Chicago in 1967, the place new know-how resembling pocket radios and TVs with built-in circuits have been displayed. This yr, AI, automotive and sensible dwelling know-how held middle stage.
Click on by means of the photographs beneath to get an concept of Torc and Aeva at CES 2025.