Aeva and Plus announced the unveiling of a design for the next generation PlusDrive highly automated driving solution integrated with Aeva's Aeries™ II 4D LiDAR™ sensor. The truck will be unveiled in Aeva's booth at CES 2023 (#6001, LVCC – West Hall). Aeva and Plus have been collaborating since 2019 to equip and validate Plus's autonomous trucking solutions with Aeva's Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) 4D LiDAR.

Today's announcement builds on the partnership that was announced in 2021 where Plus will use Aeva's 4D LiDAR sensors to augment the long-range perception system in Plus's automated driving products. Because heavy duty trucks take much longer to stop than passenger cars, they need to detect safety-critical objects, place them in lanes, and assign an accurate velocity at very long ranges. Aeva's high performance 4D LiDAR senses precise velocity and position for each point which helps Plus trucks sense their environment clearly at long ranges, shorten response time in safety-critical situations, and address edge cases such as objects that traditional 3D LiDAR and other sensors on the vehicle may miss.