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Waymo (Googl-1.57%), The automatic driving department Google Parental Alphabet, is prepared for the exchange of its production plant in the suburbs of Phoenix Mesa, Arizona.
In the new plant transforms 2,000 jaguar i-steps in Robotaxis planning to get rid of the streets of Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, in the only self-advocate services in north Americas, UA says Blog post Monday.
Waymo will add fleets to Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC., In the next 18 months.
The plant is being built with the Canadian Magna car manufacturer (MGA-1.16%), who composed suvs in Austria.
Waymo redeemed 20,000 Jaguar I-steps in 2018. year, two years before he put his first robotaxi on the streets of Phoenix. Outfitting each of them with Thinto Triple Waymo costs about $ 100,000, co-all Dmitri Dolg told The road ahead Podcast in February. I-steps retail for around $ 73,000,
But in December 2024. Jaguar interrupted a luxurious electric vehicle; The new plant will incorporate thousands of I-steps that already had. Waymo also plans to start buying two cheaper vehicles: Hyundai Ioniq 5 Hatchback, manufactured in the suburbs of savanno, Georgia and small vans from Zeekr. The latter, a Chinese brand, could prove problematic with the beginning of heavy tariffs.
“When the facility works in full capacity, it will be capable of building tens of thousands of fully autonomous vehicles for transport”, “the company in the mail.
Meat development Replace the Object Detroit, who also face Waymo and Magna, who closed last year. New 239,000-square-rate plants promises to create hundreds of work in Arizona, the winning praise of the Katie Hobbs Governor, which told It would “help the technological economy of Arizona continue to grow in the world phase.”
Ability to spread
Waymo says there are 250,000 paid trips each week in four cities that currently operates. Forbes estimates In order to take an operating fleet at the time of Waymo’s operational fleet, the company “can book 250,000 driving per day. It is over 1.5 million per week. In that scale could skip to $ 2 billion, worse than a Forbes Estimate of $ 100 million last year. “
Tesla (Tsla-333%), who has promised for years that his robotaxi service immediateHe recently claimed that he would finally be launched on the streets of Austin in June. GMs (Gm-4,40%) Cruise has left the market Decemberand his technology is now directed according to advanced driver assistance.
Waymo was launched in 2009. years before he obtained him in the 2016 alphabet. Years. He picked up $ 11 billion in three rounds of funding. And yet a series of dealing doubt About the technological and sustainability of society, as time spent on and billions.
In the last month Q1 Earnings Q1, the director of the Sundar Alphabet Pichai hinted that Waymo would want partner with Toyota (TM-2,30%) Use your technology in private vehicles. Yes, together with the promising signs of growth, he encouraged an autonomous vehicle division: “This is probably the first question I received in the wage in the way,” Surprised Pichai said. “It’s a sign of his progress.”
2025-05-05 19:50:00
