After setting up shop in Tucson, a self-driving truck developer is weighing the sale of its local site, which it received city incentives for, and other U.S. operations.
Self-driving truck developer TuSimple is looking to sell off its U.S. operations, including a major research center and freight terminal in Tucson where it laid off most employees not long after a major expansion just last year.
People are also reading… TuSimple has laid off most of its U.S. employees in Tucson, San Diego and Fort Worth, Texas, after an executive shakeup last fall and a subsequent decision to drop its nascent autonomous freight network and instead seek a partner to commercialize its self-driving truck technology.
Executive shuffleLast November, about a month after a ribbon-cutting at its new Tucson digs featuring then-Gov. Doug Ducey, TuSimple co-founder and CEO Xiaodi Hou was fired by the company's board and co-founder Mo Chen was removed as chairman, amid an investigation of TuSimple employees improperly working with a startup founded by Chen in June 2022 to develop hydrogen-powered, autonomous trucks.
In May, the company said it would lay off 30% of its global workforce, cutting mostly its U.S. operations in San Diego and Tucson, but it said it planned to set up an autonomous trucking route between Tucson and Phoenix by late 2024. In June, TuSimple announced it had successfully completed China's first fully autonomous semi-truck run on open public roads in the Shanghai area, without a human in the vehicle or human intervention.
In February 2022, TuSimple said it signed a National Security Agreement with the U.S. government, agreeing to limit access to certain data and adopt a technology-control plan, and to drop a board member from a Chinese investor group, among other measures.
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