{"id":846114,"date":"2025-05-06T04:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/uber-and-weride-set-their-robotaxi-sights-on-15-more-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:11:48","slug":"uber-and-weride-set-their-robotaxi-sights-on-15-more-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/uber-and-weride-set-their-robotaxi-sights-on-15-more-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber and WeRide set their robotaxi sights on 15 more cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to expand a commercial robotaxi partnership and bring the service to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion comes five months after the two companies launched a commercial\u00a0robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The companies said the expansion<\/a> will include cities in Europe. Under the partnership, WeRide\u2019s robotaxi services are available through the Uber app. The relationship is similar to Uber\u2019s deal with Waymo, in which the ride-hailing company handles the network routing and fleet operations, while the autonomous vehicle company remains responsible for the AV tech. <\/p>\n

Uber and WeRide, which went\u00a0public<\/a>\u00a0on the Nasdaq in late October, operate together in Abu Dhabi and announced plans to add Dubai. In Abu Dhabi, they work with local Tawasul Transport to handle fleet operations. <\/p>\n

The additional 15 cities will focus on cities outside of China and United States.<\/p>\n

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Uber has locked up more than 15 partnerships with a wide-range of autonomous vehicle technology companies over the past two years across\u00a0ride-hailing<\/a>, delivery, and trucking. In the past two months, Uber has announced deals with Ann Arbor, Michigan-based May Mobility\u00a0<\/a> Volkswagen<\/a>, and Chinese self-driving firm Momenta.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s most high-profile partnership in the U.S. \u2014 and one that is commercially operating today \u2014 is with Waymo. The companies offer a Waymo on Uber service in Austin and are about to\u00a0do the same in Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tKirsten Korosec is a reporter and editor who has covered the future of transportation from EVs and autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility and in-car tech for more than a decade. She is currently the transportation editor at TechCrunch and co-host of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast. She is also co-founder and co-host of the podcast, \u201cThe Autonocast.\u201d She previously wrote for Fortune, The Verge, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and CBS Interactive.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image Credits:Uber 3:00 PM PDT \u00b7 May 5, 2025 Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to expand a commercial robotaxi partnership and bring the service to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion comes five months after the two companies launched a commercial\u00a0robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi.\u00a0 The companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111273,46,143705],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robotaxi","category-technology","category-weride"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}