Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe

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Chinese autonomous conveyance shaper Pony AI and Uber program to bring 2,000 robotaxis to 4 cities successful Europe arsenic portion of an expanded partnership.

The announcement illustrates the increasing ambitions of some companies to carve retired marketplace stock successful the nascent robotaxi industry. Uber has partnered with more than 30 autonomous conveyance companies, including Pony.ai, implicit the past respective years. Pony.ai, meanwhile, has launched successful 4 Chinese cities and has locked successful partnerships with section proscription authorities successful an effort to bring its robotaxis to European and Middle Eastern countries, including Qatar.

Uber and Pony.ai didn’t stock a timeline for erstwhile these robotaxis would beryllium deployed, oregon sanction the cities successful which they’d launch, lone saying that details would beryllium revealed successful phases. The companies’ now-expanded concern does look to person cleared up immoderate of the terms, with Pony.ai’s “joint-deployment model” getting a clearer way to commercialized scale.

This means that the Guangzhou, China-based institution volition proviso the autonomous conveyance technology, portion Uber volition supply its immense ride-hailing platform. Fleet management, which would see maintenance, cleaning, and charging, tin beryllium handled by a section provider, according to the companies, and the robotaxi fleet whitethorn beryllium owned by antithetic partners depending connected the market.

Uber and Pony.ai archetypal partnered successful May 2025 with a absorption on the Middle East. Earlier this year, Uber and Pony.ai turned to Europe and announced plans to motorboat a commercialized robotaxi work successful Zagreb, Croatia with section institution Verne.

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