The collaboration between Waymo and Geely to develop robotaxis for the US market is showing concrete progress after almost two years.
As US media found out, searches Zeekr, made by the Chinese automobile giant Geely founded electric car project, a logistics manager in the USA. The company confirmed that the selected candidate would work on the Waymo project.
The robotaxi initiative is progressing according to plan, says Zeekr. The first vehicles will be delivered to Waymo for testing in the US by the end of this year. There is no specific timeline for the start of commercial operations of the Waymo Zeekr robotaxis.
In December 2021, Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle division, announced plans to develop a fully electric robotaxi with Zeekr. Last November, they showed off a prototype of the model, which includes Waymo’s autonomous driving system and hardware developed by Zeekr.