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Driver co-pilot to make trucking more efficient
Hypermile is on a mission to improve trucking efficiency, sustainability and safety by developing an AI driver assistance system 🚛 🌎🌱. Today, fuel is the main cost component for logistics operators, accounting for >1/3 of all operating costs. Driving behavior is a key factor affecting overall fuel consumption and can increase fuel use by up to 35%. However, current solutions are not cost effective, so logistics operators are constantly looking for new solutions. In addition, logistics operators are under huge sustainability pressure, as Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) are responsible for 16% of the UK's transport emissions but only 5% of the miles travelled. While electric vehicle sales for passenger vehicles are on the rise, the same can't be said for long-haul HGVs due to high initial cost and limited range, making it impractical for logistic purposes. With this problem in mind, we aim to leverage the latest AI techniques to improve the fuel efficiency of diesel trucks today, and increase the range of zero-emission trucks of the future. Our product Hypermile Co-Pilot is a retrofittable AI cruise control for commercial vehicles focused on controlling the speed of the truck efficiently. We have trained the AI algorithms to learn the best techniques for saving fuel: anticipating how traffic flow will change, optimising speed based on the road gradient and maximizing vehicle coasting. As a result, we can reduce diesel consumption by 11% and extend the range of battery-electric vehicles by 15%. The long term vision is to incrementally build higher levels of autonomy with the next milestone being a Level-3 autonomous trucking solution. The company was founded in May 2020 and raised a $1.5M pre-seed round in May 2021 from Y Combinator, Greg Brockman (CTO of OpenAI), Luc Vincent (former Executive VP of Autonomous Driving at Lyft Level 5) and others. We’ve received a number of R&D grants from Innovate UK, Department for Transport and Horizons 2020. We’re currently a team of 10 across Commercial, Product and Engineering (including 4. sub-teams cloud software, machine learning, automotive software and electronics).
Hypermile provides an AI-powered cruise control system for trucks aimed at reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions while improving safety and driver comfort. The system integrates with existing OEM controls via secure APIs and CAN interfaces and continuously learns from real-world driving patterns.
Hypermile uses superhuman perception and prediction models to anticipate vehicle behavior and road conditions, transforming raw sensor data into intelligent control decisions. It integrates with OEM cruise systems, operates with real-time data analysis, and updates OTA to improve performance. Key capabilities include perception from cameras, radar, and telemetry; predictive AI that plans speed up to 2 kilometers ahead; and precision control that optimizes acceleration and deceleration while maintaining safety and compliance with manufacturer safeguards. The architecture is plug‑and‑play, universal across diesel, hybrid, hydrogen, and electric platforms, with a cloud dashboard for fleet monitoring.
Who it’s for: Fleet operators and trucking fleets in Europe, including partnerships with leading fleets and OEMs; operators seeking immediate fuel savings, reduced emissions, and compliance with regulatory ESG reporting.
Pilot deployments with major European fleets and OEMs, OEM integration plans for 2026, regulatory compliance achievements
Jakub has worked in data & AI for over a decade. He is the CTO for Tenderd (YC S18). Previously, he founded AI startup Hypermile (YC S20). He wrote a best-selling book on an area of Generative AI and he guest lectures at the University of Oxford. He worked for global tech companies (Palantir), as well as consultancies (Brainpool, Mudano, where he grew the ML team from 1 to 15) and startups (as ML Tech Lead at Filtered and a consultant at Founders Factory). Jakub graduated from Oxford.
Founder and CEO of Hypermile (S20). Background in computer vision and computer graphics. Former Head of Computer Vision at Pupil, ex-Adobe, ex-Disney, Entrepreneur First (EF1) alum. Computer Vision and Computer Graphics PhD from University College London.
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