The businesses will work collectively to develop the autonomous car however it’s not clear when it will hit the streets.
Lucid is making a push into the European robotaxi market and it is teaming up with Bolt to take action. Bolt plans to deploy at the very least 25,000 autonomous autos based mostly on Lucid’s midsize platform throughout the continent. The ridesharing firm plans to have 100,000 AVs on its platform by 2035, however it hasn’t revealed when these explicit robotaxis are seemingly to enter service.
Bolt, which plans to personal and function the Lucid fleet, will work with the automaker to develop the car. The robotaxi will seemingly use NVIDIA’s Hyperion autonomous car structure and it is being designed for Stage 4 automation (in different phrases, the businesses plan for it to run autonomously inside outlined boundaries).
Earlier this 12 months, Lucid confirmed off a two-seater robotaxi prototype based mostly on the midsized platform, which is meant to assist the corporate produce autos which can be cheaper than its present fashions. Lucid lately delayed the Cosmos SUV, its first EV that is based mostly on the platform, to early 2027. It introduced the delay a few months after it laid off round 18 p.c of the workforce.
Lucid additionally has a robotaxi partnership with Uber and Nuro within the US. Uber plans to deploy 35,000 Lucid robotaxis within the nation, together with midsized autos and a mannequin based mostly on the Gravity SUV. Nuro has began testing the Gravity robotaxi with a security driver behind the wheel in Houston and within the San Francisco Bay Space.