Pony.ai, a number one international autonomous driving firm, Toyota Motor China and GAC Toyota Motor Co. (GTMC) introduced that they are going to type a three way partnership to collectively advance the longer term mass manufacturing and large-scale deployment of absolutely driverless robotaxis.
The three way partnership firm might be established in 2023, with an estimated funding of greater than RMB 1 billion (approx. USD 139.2 million). GTMC will present Pony.ai with Toyota branded battery electrical automobiles, that are geared up with Toyota’s automobile redundant programs which might be appropriate for L4 autonomous driving improvement.
The automobiles might be geared up with Pony.ai’s superior autonomous driving know-how and can run on Pony.ai’s robotaxi community platform, PonyPilot+. The events’ joint efforts will ship protected and handy robotaxi companies for riders.
The three way partnership combines Pony.ai’s world-class autonomous driving know-how and robotaxi operations expertise, Toyota’s extremely regarded automobile applied sciences, and GTMC’s superior manufacturing expertise. It’s going to present the capability for scaled-up robotaxi companies, encourage the total commercialization of superior autonomous mobility, and drive the event of the complete trade into a brand new stage.
The three way partnership will deepen the long-time collaboration between Pony.ai and Toyota. In August 2019, Pony.ai and Toyota introduced they’d collectively advance the event of autonomous automobiles in China.
In September 2019, the 2 corporations joined arms to steer autonomous driving testing on public roads in China, utilizing Toyota’s Lexus RX 450h mannequin and Pony.ai’s autonomous driving programs. In April 2023, the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS (S-AM) automobile geared up with Pony.ai’s sixth technology autonomous driving software program and {hardware} system began public street testing in each Beijing and Guangzhou.
Amongst its self-owned fleets, Pony.ai presently has a mixed fleet of round 200 Toyota and Lexus model robotaxis, situated in all 4 of China’s Tier-1 cities (Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen) for street assessments and public-facing robotaxi operations.
Aug 8, 2023