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Tucson, AZ (October 6, 2022) – Self-driving truck developer TuSimple has more room to grow in Tucson after christening a new facility at its development center and terminal on East Old Vail Road.
Gov. Doug Ducey and local officials were on hand Thursday for a formal ribbon-cutting event at the new, 35,000-square foot office, lab and warehouse space.
TuSimple Chairman and CEO Xiaodi Hou, in a video recording since he couldn’t attend, thanked Ducey for enabling testing of self-driving vehicles and local leaders for helping the company thrive, calling Arizona “the leading place in the U.S. for investments in autonomous technology.”
Hou said TuSimple’s technology can significantly improve traffic safety, reduce trucking fatalities and help relieve current supply-chain shortages, citing a shortage of an estimated 80,000 truck drivers.
TuSimple’s milestone comes after the recent announcement that robo-taxi developer Pony.ai will base its first and only operation in Arizona at Pima Community College’s new Automotive Technology & Innovation Center at its Downtown campus. Google’s Waymo has been testing self-driving cars in the Phoenix area.
Ducey congratulated TuSimple on its expansion milestone and said the state has become a magnet for autonomous-vehicle development after beating other states to form a regulatory framework for testing.
“With our flag firmly planted as America’s AV hub, high-tech jobs and companies have come flocking to our state,” he said.
Partnering with truck makers including Navistar, Peterbilt and Traton, and shippers including UPS and the U.S. Postal Service, TuSimple has been testing its self-driving trucks with monitor drivers along Interstate 10 from its Tucson site since 2017. More recently, the company has logged more than 500 miles of completely driverless runs in cooperation with transportation and law enforcement.
The company, which is subject to a federal probe of a minor crash involving a TuSimple truck in April, hopes to win federal approval for autonomous truck runs by 2024.
With the new building, San Diego-based TuSimple has roughly doubled the footprint of its Tucson operation, which after the company added about 100 jobs in the past two years now employs about 300 workers.
By David Wichner, Arizona Daily Star
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In between large plots of unkempt land, over 600 young gymnasts head into Springs Gymnastics each week.
“We have kids that come from Sierra Vista which is an hour south of us, we have kids from Sahuarita and with have kids from inside Tucson too,” Shelly McNulty, the manager and director of Springs Gymnastics, said.
Since McNulty moved to the area three years ago and took over leadership at the gym, she has seen the community change.
“We’re a growing community which is great that obviously helps us and hopefully we expand too,” she said.
And now the change is landing right outside her gyms parking lot in the form of the 43.11 acres of barren land, which was recently sold for $4.4 million. Diamond Ventures bought the land a few weeks ago. It’s the same company that owns the 118 acres across the street, which contains TJ Maxx, Ross, Petco and Northwest Emergency Center.
“It would likely be an industrial use,” Bill Kelley, the CFO of Diamond Ventures, said. “It would likely be a manufacturing facility or distribution facility.”
This project is just one of many that the company has completed in the area from Target to TuSimple Campus. It’s in early stages of planning but he said the project will begin soon and continue over the next two years.