Einride makes Nasdaq debut

Autonomous trucking and EV freight company Einride is now public and financing is poised to play a major role in its continued growth.  

Stockholm-based Einride began trading on Nasdaq June 10 with an initial market capitalization of $1.4 billion. Shares of the company opened at $16.18 and fell 7.4% to $14.99 as of market close today. 

Einride, an end-to-end provider of autonomous and EV solutions, expects going public to strengthen and diversify its securitization-based financing structure, Chief Executive Roozbeh Charli told Equipment Finance News. 

“It creates transparency around the business to the public markets and opens up more alternatives for financing,” he said. “I think it’s going to have a positive impact on our continued ability to raise more debt capital for the vehicle deployments.” 

The company chose a securitization-based model because “you loan against the cash flows of [customer] contracts, rather than just the metal itself,” Charli said, noting that this model also eases concerns tied to residual value uncertainty. 

Investors are “more focused on the contract in which [the trucks] are being deployed to help overcome that insecurity that the market has had around residual values and resale values of the trucks,” he said.  

Further, Einride aims to alleviate residual value concerns by collecting and transmitting data in real time with its AI-powered fleet management system, providing deeper insights into vehicle utilization, charging efficiency and other performance metrics, Charli said. 

As of March, Einride had $92 million of annual recurring revenue in signed customer contracts, up from $65 million in mid-2025, according to an investor presentation. 

Attracting investors  

Einride’s primary goals for the remainder of 2026 are to sell investors on its unconventional freight-as-a-service business model and prove the economics of autonomous EV freight, Charli said. 

The autonomous truck market overall is reaching an inflection point at which commercialization is more important than validating the technology’s reliability, he said. 

“I think the shift of focus that I see is a lot more around, ‘How are you actually going to deploy this technology? How are you going to take that technology and put it into use with customers?’” he said. 

Establishing a federal framework also is crucial for autonomous trucking stakeholders, Charli said.  

The total addressable market for autonomous trucking is $4.6 trillion, according to an Einride release today.  

Einride joins Kodiak AI and Aurora Innovation as publicly traded autonomous trucking companies, with other notable players including Torc Robotics, PlusAI and Waabi.