Uber Technologies, Verne and Pony.ai announced a strategic partnership to launch the first commercial robotaxi service in Europe, beginning in Zagreb soon, with initial deployment work already underway, including public-road validation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three companies plan to collaborate on the deployment of a commercial robotaxi service, combining Pony.ai\u2019s autonomous driving system, Uber\u2019s global mobility platform, and Verne\u2019s service ecosystem and operational framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Together, the companies aim to build a scalable path toward commercial robotaxi services in Zagreb and, over time, potentially into additional European cities and other markets, with plans to scale to a fleet of thousands of robotaxis over the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPartnering with Uber and Verne represents an important milestone as we continue to expand autonomous mobility globally,\u201d<\/em> said Dr. James Peng, Founder and CEO of Pony.ai.<\/strong> \u201cIn China, our Gen-7 has achieved meaningful commercial scale, including unit economics breakeven in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, demonstrating the readiness of our technology and business model. By leveraging this experience, we are well-positioned to accelerate commercialization internationally, combining our technology with Uber\u2019s global platform and Verne\u2019s role in enabling multi-market deployment, to build a scalable and sustainable autonomous mobility ecosystem.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEurope needs autonomous mobility that can move from testing to a real service,\u201d<\/em> said Marko Pejkovic, CEO of Verne<\/strong>. \u201cAt Verne, we are bringing together the technology, platform, and operational capabilities required to make this a reality, starting in Zagreb before expanding to new markets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThrough a strong ecosystem of partnerships, autonomous mobility can both scale globally and more effectively,\u201d<\/em> said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber.<\/strong> \u201cBy bringing together Pony.ai\u2019s proven autonomous driving technology, Verne\u2019s operational and market expertise, and Uber\u2019s global platform, we\u2019re taking an important step toward making autonomous ride-hailing available to more riders in more places.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uber Technologies, Verne and Pony.ai announced a strategic partnership to launch the first commercial robotaxi service in Europe, beginning in Zagreb soon, with initial deployment work already underway, including public-road validation. The three companies plan to collaborate on the deployment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,1133,21,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17097,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions\/17097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}