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We’re excited to host the #RustLA Meetup at Parallel HQ this May. Parallel is building autonomous, battery-electric freight rail systems, and Rust is an important part of the embedded software stack powering that work. We’re looking forward to welcoming the Rust LA community to our space, sharing more about the technology, and giving attendees a firsthand look at what our team is building. Space is limited, so RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gjEMw3e9 #RustLA

Most people are still talking about the future of freight rail. We’re bringing it to Washington. On April 28, Parallel will be at the FRA Rail Tech Summit at U.S. DOT Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where we’ll be showcasing our autonomous, battery-electric freight rail system with a live vehicle and on-site perception demo. This is not a concept. It’s not a rendering. It’s not a pilot slide. It’s a real vehicle, operating in front of U.S. DOT Headquarters as part of a day convened by the Federal Railroad Administration. We’re honored to be invited by the FRA to help show what the next era of freight rail can look like: autonomous, electric, data-rich, and far more flexible than the legacy model. If you’re attending, our team will be there to walk through the vehicle, the perception stack, and the broader system we’re building to modernize freight rail. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gGTpFydk #FreightRail #RailInnovation #Autonomy #BatteryElectric #RailTech

Proud moment for the team at Parallel. As Matt shared, we’ll be showcasing our autonomous, battery-electric freight rail system at the FRA Rail Tech Summit at U.S. DOT Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 28 from 9:00 AM to Noon, with a fully operational vehicle on site. Our team will be there and happy to meet others across the rail industry, walk through the vehicle, and share more about the future we’re building at Parallel. If you plan to attend, RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gGTpFydk We’re excited to be part of this event and help demonstrate what a more modern, flexible, and autonomous future for freight rail can look like. #AutonomousRail #FRATEchSummit

We’re hiring a Procurement Lead. This is a high-ownership role for someone who knows how to drive. We need a tenacious operator who can own procurement across the materials, components, and services that keep our autonomous rail vehicles moving from build to field. You won’t just be cutting POs. You’ll be pushing vendors, managing critical timelines, solving supply issues before they become build delays, and working closely with engineering, operations, and finance to keep hardware moving in a fast-paced environment. If you’ve worked in hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, automotive, rail, or a similarly complex physical product environment and know how to make things happen, we’d love to hear from you. https://lnkd.in/gFWD5yCk #NowHiring #ProcurementLead #StartupHiring #HardTechHiring #StartupJobs

Great to see Michael Miller and Genesee & Wyoming Inc. call out the need for railroads to work together, modernize, and compete more effectively with trucking. In his recent Trains opinion piece, Michael also referenced the pilot underway with Parallel, which we’re proud to be advancing together. That is exactly where we believe the industry needs to go. Rail has a massive role to play in the future of freight, but unlocking that opportunity will take new operating models, new technology, and strong partnerships across the industry. Parallel is building autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles to help make rail more flexible, more responsive, and better suited for freight flows that have historically stayed on trucks. Our pilot with G&W is an important step in showing what that future can look like in the real world. Modernizing rail is not about incremental change. It is about expanding what rail can serve, improving service for customers, and creating a system that can win more freight over time. Appreciate Michael and the G&W team for leaning into that vision with us. Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eyHc-Dxp #FreightRail #RailInnovation #AutonomousVehicles #Logistics #SupplyChain #Transportation

Grateful for the Parallel television coverage from Rich DeMuro at KTLA today! Our mission is simple: we're using autonomy and electrification to move more freight by existing rail, alleviating highway congestion and reducing the cost of goods transportation. Its real and has started in Georgia. Proud to be building this company with our great team here in LA! https://lnkd.in/g7NbnnZy

Excited to see Parallel Systems featured on KTLA. We’re building autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles that can redefine what rail looks like in the modern freight market, making rail more flexible and opening the door to far more freight movement by rail. This is the kind of technology that can expand rail’s role in a major way and help reshape the future of freight. Check out the KTLA feature below: https://lnkd.in/g__pNeTr #FutureofFreight #AutonomousRail #NewsSpotlight #FreightRail

Rail has existed for 200 years. Trucks have only dominated short-haul freight for 60. That's not because trucks are better. It's because rail never had a vehicle that could compete at small scale. Traditional trains need hundreds of cars and a locomotive to break even. Below 500 miles, those economics fall apart completely. So trucking filled the void - and kept filling it, to the tune of $800B a year. But the math is shifting. Diesel is getting more expensive. Truck rates are climbing. The logistics and procurement teams paying attention right now are the ones who won't get caught flat-footed when rates spike. Parallel builds autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles that run on existing tracks - 500 miles on a single charge, truck-competitive pricing, no locomotive required. The short-haul freight market hits $202B by 2033. Rail's share of it today: near zero. That's a problem we're fixing.

Access has always defined rail’s competitiveness. In Matt's conversation with Larry Gross, we discussed one of the structural constraints in intermodal today: density. Traditionally, rail requires very high volume concentrations to justify service. That limits where terminals can be placed and which customers can realistically participate. Parallel changes that equation. By lowering the density threshold by an order of magnitude, intermodal movements no longer have to be measured in hundreds of containers at a time. When trains are measured in tens instead of hundreds, rail can move closer to where freight actually originates and terminates. And proximity is everything. One of the biggest determinants of rail’s ability to compete with trucking is how close the terminal is to the customer. If you can serve industrial parks, smaller clusters of shippers, or underutilized freight pockets that previously lacked the density to justify rail, you expand the addressable market dramatically. This is how intermodal evolves from serving concentrated corridors to serving distributed freight demand. Lower the density barrier. Move closer to the freight. Expand the market.  That is how rail gets back on a growth track.