Terraline isn’t abandoning autonomous trucking entirely but reacting to a pressing need for electric long-haul trucks. Under its new direction, it plans to deploy Tangra LH1 vehicles for customer testing later this year.

“We have the opportunity to scale fast, accelerating the adoption of electrification across freight fleets today,” Terraline CEO and founder Graham Doorley explained in an announcement this week. “Our success has to be of our own making and can’t be predicated on the progress of autonomous technologies and regulation.”