Volkswagen And the service agent Uber has agreed a partnership for the US market. Over the next ten years, the carmaker is to be thousands of autonomous autonomous electrollis of type ID Buzz AD for trips in the USA Provide how the Hamburg VW subsidiary Moia announced. Uber customers should be able to call the Bullis via the US company’s app.
Commercial trips from 2026
The partnership begins immediately, said a Moia spokesman. According to the plan, a test phase begins at the end of the year. In 2026, the first commercial trips are to be offered – initially in Los Angeles. More precisely, the partnership Volkswagen ADMT LLC-this is a company of the VW US subsidiary-Moia and Uber.
Successful in business with robotaxis in the United States has long been Google-Daughter Waymo in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin. Further cities are to be added this year. In an interview with manager magazine
Had recently announced Volkswagen boss Oliver Blume to want to compete with Waymo while driving autonomous. “We see great progress on the way to be able to offer an integrated series solution in the next few years. Comparable to Waymo
, but with its own product – the Id.buzz. “
Tesla wants to produce a robot taxi called Cybercab from 2026. General Motors the corresponding cruise project ended at the end of 2024 after the car manufacturer burned $ 10 billion.
This month it became known that the Uber competitor Lyft was expanding to Europe by the Freenow mobility app of BMW and buys mercedes. Lyft pays German car manufacturers 175 million euros. Freenow was originally founded as a start-up in Hamburg under the name MyTaxi.