Qingtian Truck

Qingtian Truck (擎天智卡) is an autonomous trucking startup founded in November 2021 by Pan Zhenhao, formerly CTO of Pony.ai's truck unit Xiaoma Zhika, and Sun Youhan, former planning and control lead for Pony.ai's US truck team . The company focuses on autonomous truck technology R&D and logistics transportation, with an initial team of roughly 20 people drawn from established autonomous driving players . In January 2022, it raised a nearly $10 million angel round led exclusively by 5Y Capital, whose managing director Chen Ze cited the trillion-scale干线物流 market as ripe for autonomous commercialization . By early 2023, Qingtian Truck had announced strategic partnerships with Weidu Technology and Panasonic 4D, suggesting expansion beyond its initial R&D phase . elsewhere's corpus does not contain more recent operational or funding updates.