NEW YORK, January 6, 2026, 07:27 (EST) — Premarket
- Aeva shares jump about 25% before the bell after a CES update tied to Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion platform.
- The company also unveiled its Omni short-range 4D LiDAR sensor developed with LG Innotek.
- Traders are watching for follow-on customer details and timelines during CES through Jan. 9.
Shares of Aeva Technologies (AEVA) jumped 24.6% to $16.31 in premarket trading on Tuesday, after closing at $13.09 in the prior session, as investors reacted to fresh CES announcements.
The move matters because lidar makers have struggled to convert demonstrations into large production programs, and a spot in Nvidia’s autonomous-vehicle ecosystem can raise a supplier’s visibility with automakers and software developers.
Aeva said its frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) “4D” lidar — which measures distance and an object’s speed — was selected for Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion autonomous-vehicle reference platform. “We’re honored that Aeva’s 4D LiDAR is the LiDAR sensor for the Hyperion vehicle platform,” CEO Soroush Salehian said, and the companies said they are targeting production vehicle programs starting in 2028. Business Wire
Separately, Aeva unveiled Omni, a compact short-range sensor developed with LG Innotek that the company said offers a 360-degree horizontal and 90-degree vertical field of view and up to 80 meters of range. Co-founder and CTO Mina Rezk said Omni “provides a new level of safety and capability by delivering high-resolution perception across an exceptionally wide field of view,” while Aeva said LG Innotek will handle hardware integration and manufacturing; early customer pilots are slated for the second half of 2026, with production targeted in 2027. Business Wire
LG Innotek has already taken a strategic stake in Aeva as part of a $50 million deal, Reuters reported last year, and Aeva in December announced an exclusive agreement with an unnamed European automaker that analysts have linked to Mercedes-Benz.
Small lidar suppliers such as Luminar, Innoviz and Ouster have been vying for passenger-car and commercial-vehicle programs, where awards can take years to translate into revenue and manufacturing scale. For Aeva, investors will look for clearer customer names, volumes and timing as the CES news cycle plays out.
But the Nvidia-linked program is long-dated, and Aeva has warned that orders and OEM adoption are not under its control. A Form 4 filing showed Rezk sold a combined 321,723 shares on Jan. 2 at $12.9564 in automatic transactions tied to tax withholding on vesting awards.
