Layoffs of 75!The first strand of unmanned trucks retreated from the United States

Mondo Finance Updated on 2024-01-28

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The first share of unmanned trucks, abandoning the United StatesTuSimple Future Future has laid off its U.S. operations again, leaving only 50 employees in the U.S., and the retention of employees is to reduce U.S. operations and help the company move to the Asia-Pacific region.

This is itThird layoff in a year, right inA year agoTuSimple also had plans to do business in Asia in the future, but unexpectedlyHalf a year later, the direction was reversed, a drastic reduction of U.S. operations.

With the aftershocks of its U.S. business, TuSimple has embarked on a new future in the Asia-Pacific region.

TuSimple Future, which debuted on the Nasdaq in 2021 and is the world's first stock of unmanned trucks, recently submitted a report to U.S. regulators.

According to the report, TuSimple will cut contracts in the future150 peopleU.S. employees, which is about the total number of U.S. employees, which accounts for 19% of its global workforce.

This is the third layoff in TuSimple in the coming year, having laid off about 680 employees in December and May.

After this layoff, TuSimple will have about employees around the world700 people, and according to the data can be calculated, itsThere are only 50 employees left in the United States

TuSimple said that these U.S. employees will focus on closing TuSimple's future business in the U.S., including the company's U.S. assets and assisting the company's transfer to the Asia-Pacific region.

The layoffs are another step in TuSimple's strategic shift to the future, which said the report said that TuSimple had previously suspended its freight revenue business in the United States and sold some assets in order to shift its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region.

Now that the number of employees in the United States has decreased sharply, the people who remain are also in order to close their business in the United States, and they will continue to be the best assets in the future, which means that TuSimple Future, the first stock of unmanned trucks, has basically given up on the United States.

TuSimple will shift its strategic focus in the future, and there are two factors:

fromThe external environmentCome and see,The commercialization of unmanned trucks in North America has not been smooth, even Google's Waymo has shut down its unmanned truck business.

The regulatory level has also put more pressure on the industry this year:

In June this year, considering that unmanned trucks would cause truck drivers to lose their jobs, the truckers' union lobbied the California authorities and finally introduced a bill in early June this year, requiring most specifications of unmanned trucks to be equipped with safety officers when driving until 2030.

This curbed the prospect of unmanned trucks in North America in terms of technical value, and although the local governor vetoed the bill nearly four months later, it still caused a lot of trouble for the industry.

The lack of commercialization and the interference of local regulations are the external environmental factors that TuSimple will face in the United States in the future.

From TuSimple's own point of view, the departure of its North American soul Hou Xiaodi last year made the team completely lose its backbone.

Hou Xiaodi, co-founder, former chairman and CEO of TuSimple, experienced a series of internal turmoil after his departure, and TuSimple also lost its important North American OEM partner N**iStar.

As soon as Hou Xiaodi leaves, TuSimple's future North American business will also lose its future.

However, under the influence of internal and external factors and a series of aftershocks, TuSimple will set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region in the future and begin to shift its strategic focus.

At present, the truck has started testing in Japan, and it was awarded to it in June this yearThe first batch in the countryThe driverless intelligent networked vehicle road test license has been approved to be carried out on important routes such as Yangshan Deepwater Port and Logistics Park, Donghai Bridge, etcLevel L4"Fully unmanned test" of autonomous driving heavy trucks

During the last round of layoffs in the United States, TuSimple emphasized that the layoffs represent a further shift in TuSimple's business focus to the Asia-Pacific region, and the scale of the Chinese team will be expanded in the future.

Not only experienced professionals, but also TuSimple's future recruitment for fresh graduates can be seen on some schools' official websites

TuSimple will give lectures to many prestigious schools, and even juniors can submit their resumes.

TuSimple Future's current stock price is 107 USD, market capitalization converted to ** RMBAbout 17600 million yuan。As a listed company, it has repeatedly emphasized in its regulatory reports that it wants to shift its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region.

But it is clear that the world's first share of unmanned trucks, currentlyTucson's real future, in China

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