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Luminar lidar vs velodyne
Luminar lidar vs velodyne








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Looking ahead, Russell and his colleagues are expecting sales to top $40 million in 2022, while by the end of the year the company also aims to ready its “Iris” lidar product and core software for series production.

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In terms of sales revenues, Luminar posted $12.3 million for the closing quarter of 2021, and $31.9 million for the full year respectively - both figures rising sharply on the 2020 totals, with Volvo and Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler representing the firm’s top two customers.Īnd despite its operating activities using up nearly $150 million in cash during 2021 - double the amount in 2020 - Luminar’s successful SPAC listing means that it still has nearly $800 million in liquid assets on its balance sheet. “2022 will be our biggest year yet as we prepare for our breakthrough series production launch at year-end,” he added. Reporting on the same day as Velodyne, Luminar Technologies CEO Austin Russell described his firm’s first full year as a public company as a “blowout success”, with all critical milestones met.

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Looking ahead, the Velodyne executive team predicted that sales in the opening quarter of 2022 would be somewhere between $10 million and $12 million. Speaking during an investor conference call discussing the latest results, Tewksbury also said that around 30 per cent of current sales were destined for automotive applications. “This will enhance our advantage in the second wave of lidar growth - autonomous vehicles and ADAS.” “By supplying high-performance lidar at scale into these early autonomous markets, Velodyne expects to expand our technologies and further our leadership in low-cost, high-quality, volume manufacturing,” the CEO added. Unlike many of its rivals, who are wholly focused on automotive applications, Velodyne is also targeting deployments in industrial automation and robotics, where Tewksbury anticipates the “first wave” of lidar commercialization. “Velodyne Lidar is well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity.” “Lidar is going to transform virtually every industry as we know it, creating a safer, more efficient, and sustainable world,” he said. Meanwhile Velodyne, the oldest of those companies - and the first to complete its listing via a special purpose acquisitions company (SPAC) agreement in mid-2020 - confirmed a 35 per cent fall in annual sales to $61.9 million in 2021.įor the closing quarter of 2021, Velodyne’s revenues of $17.5 million were down only slightly on the equivalent period of 2020, but the San Jose firm also burned through $30 million in cash.ĬEO Ted Tewksbury, who was appointed in November 2021 following a period of boardroom wrangling, pointed to record shipments of nearly 5000 sensors in the latest quarter as early evidence of a turnaround in fortunes.

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Luminar, Aeva, Aurora, and Ouster all posted sharp rises in sales but hefty operating losses, as they work to develop and commercialize technology aimed mostly at emerging applications in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. Several of the lidar companies recently listed on the stock market in the US have reported their financial results for 2021, revealing the rates at which they are burning through cash.










Luminar lidar vs velodyne