Volvo Autonomous Solutions Announces Fully Driverless Highway Operations in the U.S. in Q1 2027

Volvo Autonomous Solutions, a unit of the Volvo Group, announced at its Capital Markets Day event in Sweden on Wednesday that it plans to remove safety drivers on U.S. highways in the first quarter of 2027, achieving fully driverless operations.

"We are ready next year," said Nils Jaeger, President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, at the event. He added that by the end of 2027, the company will operate more than 300 autonomous trucks on U.S. highways, followed by industrial scaling in 2028. According to the event presentation, the trucks Jaeger mentioned will primarily operate in the U.S. Sunbelt region.

Founded in 2019 as a subsidiary of the Volvo Group, Volvo Autonomous Solutions collaborates with multiple autonomous driving technology companies to develop autonomous transportation solutions.

This transition to driverless operations marks the end of the company's testing phase and pushes it toward technological scaling. In 2024, the company launched a tractor equipped with Aurora Innovation's driverless technology, achieving fully integrated production of that technology at its New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia. In October 2025, Volvo stated it was only a few quarters away from removing safety drivers from its autonomous trucks.

While manufacturing trucks equipped with driverless technology, Volvo and Aurora continue to expand new routes. In May of this year, the two companies launched a new 200-mile driverless route connecting Dallas and Oklahoma City.

Jaeger said that putting more driverless trucks on U.S. roads enables the company to "introduce autonomous freight services to an increasing number of customers."

Volvo noted in its presentation materials that demand for long-haul autonomous trucks in the U.S. could reach 220,000 units by 2035.

"In less than 10 years, one in every ten trucks you see on U.S. highways will be driverless," Jaeger said, citing industry forecasts.

He added that Volvo's presence in that market will "unlock large-scale adoption of autonomous trucks" by "removing key barriers for participants," including upfront capital requirements, and by shifting regulatory responsibility away from customers.

Aurora Innovation said in a LinkedIn post that its goal in working with Volvo has "always been to bring autonomous freight to scale." Before production advances toward scaling, the technology company announced last May that it had closed its safety case—a significant milestone for Aurora. This indicates that the company has completed the documentation and test results proving its autonomous technology meets acceptable safety levels, thereby clearing the path from supervised testing to driverless commercial operations.

Jaeger said the company's next step is to "leverage our strong position" as it ramps up production.

According to the presentation materials, Volvo expects revenue from autonomous trucks could reach $3 billion within five years.

"We will achieve scale, and we will achieve it at an industrial level," Jaeger said.