Aeva Technologies, Inc. (‘Aeva’), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacturing and sale of LiDAR sensing systems and related perception and autonomy-enabling software solutions serving customers in automotive, industrial, and other markets.
Through the company’s Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (‘FMCW’) sensing technology, it is introducing 4D LiDAR-on-chip that, along with its proprietary software applications, has the potential to enable the adoption of LiDAR across...
Aeva Technologies, Inc. (‘Aeva’), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacturing and sale of LiDAR sensing systems and related perception and autonomy-enabling software solutions serving customers in automotive, industrial, and other markets.
Through the company’s Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (‘FMCW’) sensing technology, it is introducing 4D LiDAR-on-chip that, along with its proprietary software applications, has the potential to enable the adoption of LiDAR across broad applications. The company’s 4D LiDAR-on-chip combines silicon photonics technology that is proven in the telecom industry with precise instant velocity measurements and long-range performance for commercialization.
Unlike legacy 3D LiDAR, which relies on Time-of-Flight (‘ToF’) technology and measures only depth and reflectivity, Aeva’s solution leverages a proprietary FMCW technology to measure velocity in addition to depth, reflectivity, and inertial motion. Furthermore, Aeva’s technology is free from interference from other LiDAR, the beams, and sunlight, and the company’s core innovations within FMCW are intended to enable vehicles to see at significantly higher distances of up to 500 meters.
Solutions and Products
The company provides perception solutions that enable its customers to see the world around them more clearly and in new ways.
The company has the following product offerings for different market applications:
Aeries II: a 4D LiDAR solution, consisting of the company’s 4D LiDAR sensing system with embedded software designed for automotive grade production across passenger car, trucking, and mobility applications. Aeries II provides over 120º field of view for distances up to 500 meters and can measure the instant velocity of every pixel with centimeter per second precision. Aeries II is also free from any LiDAR or sunlight-based interference.
Atlas: In January 2024, the company announced a new high-performance FMCW 4D LiDAR with simultaneous velocity and range detection designed for mass production and built to meet automotive-grade requirements. Atlas is powered by Aeva’s custom silicon technology, including the company’s CoreVision LiDAR-on-chip module and the Aeva X1 system-on-chip (SoC) LiDAR processor.
Atlas Ultra: In January 2025, the company announced Aeva Atlas Ultra, its newest 4D LiDAR sensor built to meet the performance demands of SAE Level 3 and 4 automated driving systems in passenger and commercial vehicles. Designed to enable safe travel at highway speeds, Atlas Ultra provides up to three times the resolution of the standard Atlas, and configurable field of views with up to 150 degrees of vision across the horizon. On-sensor perception software enables unique detection capabilities at a maximum detection range of up to 500 meters. A 35% slimmer design than the standard Atlas is designed to make Atlas Ultra ideal for passenger cars in roofline and behind windshield integrations with minimal impact to vehicle styling and aerodynamics.
The company’s solutions are generally expected to be incorporated into final products, such as automobiles, industrial equipment, and consumer devices. It expects that, after a rigorous, multi-year product design and engineering validation process, customers would select its solutions to be designed into specific final product models, and the company’s solutions would be sold at agreed rates per unit for the lifetime of the customer’s product programs.
Within the automotive sector, it expects its 4D LiDAR solution to be integrated into the vehicle as part of the vehicle integration and production processes to provide perception sensing capability as part of the vehicle’s overall autonomous driving stack. It expects its 4D LiDAR solutions to be compatible for integration into passenger vehicles, trucks, and new mobility vehicle platforms, and the company is engaged with customers in each of these categories for the potential integration of its solutions into such vehicle platforms.
Within industrial applications, it expects its 4D LiDAR solution would be incorporated as part of an industrial automation platform solution (such as industrial metrology products or cargo moving robots used for factory automation). Within security applications, it expects its 4D LiDAR solution would be incorporated as part of security monitoring systems that may use other sensing and computer electronics systems. It expects to leverage the synergies of its supply chain and manufacturing counterparties within automotive applications to sell its solutions directly to industrial automation companies that develop manufacturing automation solutions for other industrial companies and to manufacture and distribute its products using its existing manufacturing counterparties.
Contracts and Customers
Thus far, the company has generally entered into strategic partnership agreements, development agreements, and similar agreements with customers in automotive and industrial markets. Pursuant to these agreements, it has sold or otherwise provided product prototypes and non-recurring engineering services for the purpose of research and development and testing of its customers’ development programs.
Intellectual Property
The company owns a growing portfolio of intellectual property, confidential technical information, and expertise in the development of LiDAR technology, coherent sensing, integrated silicon photonics, algorithms, and software.
The company has filed patent and trademark applications in order to further secure these rights and strengthen the company’s ability to defend against third parties who may infringe on its rights. The applications cover a broad range of system-level and component-level aspects of LiDAR technology.
As of December 31, 2024, the company had approximately 245 issued patents and 155 pending patent applications worldwide. In addition, it has a number of issued and pending trademark applications. The company’s patent applications cover a broad range of system-level hardware and component-level aspects of its key technologies, including, among other things, FMCW LiDAR system, integrated photonics, laser solutions, and perception software technology.
Sales and Marketing
The company takes an insight-driven, account-based marketing approach to build and expand its relationships with customers and commercial counterparties. It collects feedback directly from its commercial counterparties to garner insights that help drive its business and products forward.
Government Regulation
The company is also subject to the existing U.S. Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act, or TREAD, which requires equipment manufacturers, such as it, to comply with ‘Early Warning’ requirements by reporting certain information to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (‘NHTSA’), such as information related to defects or reports of injury related to its products.
As a LiDAR technology company, the company is subject to the Electronic Product Radiation Control Provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and related FDA regulations. These requirements are enforced by the Food and Drug Administration (the ‘FDA’).
Research and Development
The company’s research and development expenses were $102.7 million during the year ended December 31, 2024.
History
Aeva Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2017.