Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking

Einride 斥资 3800 万美元押注电动汽车充电业务，加速电动卡车规模化

Swedish electric and autonomous trucking company Einride has agreed to acquire EV charging startup Flipturn in an all-stock deal worth $38 million. The acquisition — Einride’s first as a publicly traded company — will expand its EV-charging ecosystem as it works to scale its electric trucking business. The deal is expected to close this month.

瑞典电动及自动驾驶卡车公司 Einride 已同意以全股票交易方式收购电动汽车充电初创公司 Flipturn，交易价值为 3800 万美元。此次收购是 Einride 上市后的首次收购，旨在扩大其电动汽车充电生态系统，以推动其电动卡车业务的规模化。该交易预计将于本月完成。

Flipturn, which employs 17 people, will continue operating with the same team, a company spokesperson confirmed. Flipturn, founded in 2022, raised $15.5 million in venture capital to build an EV-charging software platform that can communicate with any EV charger over the Open Charge Point Protocol, the industry standard for communication between EV chargers and management systems.

公司发言人证实，拥有 17 名员工的 Flipturn 将继续由原团队运营。Flipturn 成立于 2022 年，此前曾筹集 1550 万美元风险投资，用于构建一个电动汽车充电软件平台。该平台能够通过开放充电点协议（OCPP，即电动汽车充电桩与管理系统之间通信的行业标准）与任何充电桩进行通信。

The software monitors the health of charging infrastructure; pulls in data such as vehicle battery levels, driving history, and routes to help companies better manage charging; and integrates with on-site solar and energy-storage systems. Einride CEO Roozbeh Charli said the “acquisition is a decisive step in our U.S. scaling strategy.”

该软件可以监控充电基础设施的健康状况，提取车辆电池电量、行驶历史和路线等数据，以帮助企业更好地管理充电过程，并能与现场的太阳能和储能系统集成。Einride 首席执行官 Roozbeh Charli 表示，此次收购是“我们美国扩张战略中的决定性一步”。

The deal will also make Einride a more vertically integrated company, allowing it to offer customers not just electric trucks but also the charging software needed to run them more efficiently and reliably. That’s an attractive, and potentially influential, pitch to future customers that want to add electric big rigs to their fleets but may be apprehensive to do so.

这笔交易还将使 Einride 成为一家垂直整合程度更高的公司，使其不仅能为客户提供电动卡车，还能提供更高效、更可靠地运营这些卡车所需的充电软件。对于那些希望在车队中增加电动重型卡车但又心存顾虑的潜在客户来说，这是一个极具吸引力且可能产生深远影响的方案。

Einride is perhaps best known for its unusual-looking cabless autonomous podlike trucks. But its biggest revenue driver is its fleet of 200 heavy-duty electric trucks, which it operates for companies such as Heineken, PepsiCo, and Carlsberg Sweden in Europe, North America, and the United Arab Emirates.

Einride 最出名的或许是其外观独特、无驾驶室的自动驾驶“豆荚”卡车。但其最大的收入来源是其 200 辆重型电动卡车车队，这些卡车在欧洲、北美和阿拉伯联合酋长国为喜力（Heineken）、百事可乐（PepsiCo）和嘉士伯瑞典（Carlsberg Sweden）等公司提供服务。

The company, which merged with a blank-check company and debuted on Nasdaq in June, recently landed Amazon as a customer. Amazon isn’t buying Einride’s trucks; instead, Einride owns and manages the trucks — through its own Saga AI software — which can be used by drivers in Amazon’s Relay freight network. Relay, which launched in 2017, is an app that truck drivers use to book hauling gigs with Amazon.

该公司通过与一家特殊目的收购公司（SPAC）合并，于今年 6 月在纳斯达克上市，近期还成功签下了亚马逊作为客户。亚马逊并非直接购买 Einride 的卡车，而是由 Einride 通过其自有的 Saga AI 软件拥有并管理这些卡车，供亚马逊 Relay 货运网络的司机使用。Relay 于 2017 年推出，是一款卡车司机用于预订亚马逊货运任务的应用程序。