Pony.ai-SANY L4 heavy truck

A self-driving heavy truck from the Pony.ai and SANY joint venture, built on SANY's battery-electric platform with a by-wire chassis and Pony.ai's NVIDIA Orin-based controller. The partners planned small deliveries in 2022-2023 and larger production from 2024.

Price: —no price published
Autonomy: Level 4No driver needed in its area
Driverless: Not yetSafety driver on board
Fleet: ~200Reported; details below
Speed: —Not published
Range: —Not published

Compare with KargoBot L4 robotruck (KargoPlatform)

Why it matters

Pony.ai said in November 2023 it held Guangzhou's first licence to test autonomous trucks in platoon formation on open roads.

Real-world use

Five PonyTron trucks licensed for '1+N' formation tests on Guangzhou open roads (November 2023); trucks were tested on the Beijing-Tianjin port highway with a safety driver by June 2025.

Timeline

First shown: 2022-07-28
Released: Not yet

Pony.ai-SANY joint venture announcement (prototype already road-tested)

Maker

Pony.aiCompany

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status: Safety driver on board
Where it runs: Guangzhou open roads (formation testing from Nov 2023); Beijing-Tianjin port highway (June 2025)
Fleet: about 200 Pony.ai trucks across generations (Pony.ai, Nov 2025)
Rides, miles or loads: over 1 billion tonne-km of freight across Pony.ai trucks (Pony.ai, Nov 2025)
SAE level: Level 4: drives itself with no one at the controls inside its approved area

Public attention

How much public attention Pony.ai-SANY L4 heavy truck gets, from open data.

No Wikipedia article of its own yet
No recent press stories listed yet

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement: Wheeled base
How it runs: Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
Chip: DRIVE AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Runs Pony.ai's NVIDIA Orin-based controller.

Lineage

Every Pony.ai with SANY Heavy Truck vehicle in order.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price: Not publishedno price published
How to get one: No official buying page found

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose

Full comparison

Measure	Pony.ai-SANY L4 heavy truckPony.ai with SANY Heavy Truck	No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useKargoBot L4 robotruck (KargoPlatform)KargoBot (spun out of DiDi)Same job: freight · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots	Scania autonomous hub-to-hub truckScania (TRATON)Same job: freight · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots	Dongfeng heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan systemInceptio Technology with Dongfeng Commercial VehicleSame job: freight · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots
First shown	2022-07-28	2021	2021	2021-03-10
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Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

CnEVPost Pony.ai forms joint venture with SANY to produce self-driving trucks Electrek Pony.ai gets first license to test L4 autonomous trucks in formation on China's open roads Pony.ai Pony.ai Robotruck business and next-generation vehicles

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