Robert Falck used to work at a Russian trucking factory by day, and by night, he built a nightclub guest list startup. He also collects old books, and once guessed that Chinese author Gao Xingjian would win the Nobel Prize in literature. He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. No, this isn't a game of two truths and a lie -- indeed, these are snippets from the life of a serial entrepreneur who harbors a vendetta against the carbon emissions produced by the world's trucking industry. Falck, now the CEO and founder of Swedish autonomous freight company Einride, also worked as the director of manufacturing engineering assembly at Volvo GTO Powertrain.

Driverless trucks could soon help ferry felled logs from remote locations. Swedish tech start-up Einride has revealed the T-log, an autonomous, all-electric logging truck designed to replace the polluting diesel trucks currently used. Unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it has no driver's cab but can be remote-controlled by a human operator, from hundreds of miles away. Fleet of T-logs will be coordinated by an intelligent routing system, optimizing delivery time, battery life and energy consumption, making the transport as efficient as possible, the firm behind it says. Robert Falck, the CEO of Einride, the firm behind the truck, said: 'The driver's cab is what makes trucks expensive to produce, and having a driver in the cabin is what makes them expensive to operate.