Kodiak delivers first Western Star 49X driverless trucks to Atlas Energy, growing its no-driver fleet to 37
Kodiak AI says it delivered the first two Western Star 49X trucks fitted with its Kodiak Driver system to Atlas Energy Solutions in September. They are the first of 65 Western Stars that will complete Atlas's initial order of 100 driverless trucks, which Kodiak says is on track for the first half of 2027.
The pair brings Atlas's owned-and-operated fleet in Texas's Permian Basin to 37 trucks that run with no human in the cab. Kodiak says the fleet had passed 40,000 hours of driverless service as of June 30. The Western Stars, built by Daimler Truck North America, are the first vehicles with Kodiak's seventh-generation hardware.
Why it matters
Kodiak says these are the first day-cab autonomous trucks in commercial service. Atlas and Kodiak have also started limited driverless service on public county roads in the Permian, with wider public-road use expected in mid-2027 once safety requirements are met.
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