Bolt seems to be to copy Uber’s success as a partnership-enabled robotaxi platform, however in Europe. By Stewart Burnett
Weeks after elevating capital in a Hong Kong itemizing to speed up its abroad growth plans, Pony.ai has partnered with ride-hailing platform Bolt to deploy robotaxis throughout European markets. The settlement will combine Pony.ai’s SAE Degree 4 autonomous driving expertise into Bolt’s community, with preliminary deployments concentrating on cities in a number of EU member states and different European international locations from 2026 onwards.
Particular cities haven’t but been introduced; nor has a concrete timeline for deployment beyons a ballpark launch 12 months. In a press launch, Bolt and Pony.ai have mentioned they are going to prioritise real-world testing, security validation and consumer expertise design earlier than launching totally driverless providers.
In an announcement, Pony.ai Founder James Peng described Europe as “a fast-growing and extremely promising marketplace for autonomous mobility”. Bolt Chief Govt Markus Villig added: “Autonomous autos will rework how individuals and items transfer round, and Bolt is proud to accomplice with Pony.ai as the corporate scales its autonomous driving expertise.”
Pony.ai’s European growth follows robust third-quarter outcomes introduced on 25 November displaying complete revenues of US$25.4m—a noteworthy year-on-year leap of 72% year-on-year—pushed by a mixture of expanded robotaxi providers and licensing revenues. Robotaxi revenues climbed 89.5% to succeed in US$6.7m whereas fare-charging revenues surged greater than 200%, supported by rising demand in Chinese language tier-one cities and optimised fleet operations.
Pony.ai achieved a major industrial milestone throughout November with its seventh-generation robotaxis reaching city-wide unit economics breakeven in Guangzhou, the place autos averaged 23 each day orders. On the time of writing, the corporate operates 961 robotaxis (together with 667 Gen 7 models), with targets to exceed 1,000 autos by year-end and surpass 3,000 models by the top of 2026.
The partnership is Pony.ai’s second European collaboration introduced this month following a 17 November settlement with Stellantis to develop and take a look at SAE Degree 4 autonomous autos combining the automaker’s ‘AV-Prepared’ platform with Pony.ai’s expertise. The Chinese language agency presently operates totally driverless robotaxi providers throughout Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen; industrial providers in Abu Dhabi are additionally anticipated in 2026.
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