Lightning eMotors, STEER enter partnership to upgrade commercial EVs

Lightning eMotors and STEER Tech announced a collaboration to offer autonomous functionality to Lightning’s customers to enhance safety and efficiency. The collaboration will facilitate the integration of STEER’s autonomous vehicle technology into Lightning’s medium-duty commercial electric vehicle product line. STEER’s patented autonomous vehicle technology can add safety functionality currently unavailable in most medium-duty commercial EVs, such as collision avoidance and autonomous vehicle movement, and could be used in a variety of use cases including campus employee and student transportation and distribution center cargo movement.