Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter

at the automotive news. 2025 seems poised to be a big year for self-driving trucks. Several

companies have ambitious short-term plans for deployments, and that has

already started with Kodiak Robotics, which has made its first driverless truck deliveries to its partner

Atlas Energy, and those trucks are now operating in the Permian Basin in West Texas.

So that's a lead-in for my guest today, who is Cody Acrobotic CEO and founder Don Burnett.

He's going to dive into the details of that deployment and the company's business model overall.

We're not just doing this for the principle of doing this. We want to find applications that

actually provide value. But first today, we're going to check out this week's headlines

from elsewhere in the mobility realm. And for that, we're going to check out this week's headlines from

elsewhere in the mobility realm. And for that, I am pleased to welcome my automotive news

colleague Hannah Lutz. Hannah, how are you today? Hi, Pete, doing well. How about you? Doing good.

You know, I know that while I've been covering AVs lately, you have been exploring electric vehicle-related developments, and

along those lines, you were in North Carolina last week. What was down there? So I went for the

grand opening, the ribbon cutting of Ianna, which is the joint venture charging network of

eight automakers.

So that's BMW, GM, Kia, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz Delantis, and Toyota.

So some of the top-selling automakers in the industry came together, which we knew to put together a charging network.

And February 4th was the official grand opening in Apex,

North Carolina, which is near their headquarters in Durham.

And it was really a special event because it's rare to get eight automakers in one small place.

Like it was just at a charging station.

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