Waymo ramps up robotaxi production at new Arizona factory

Waymo is a figure that covers vehicles used in the Jaguar I-PACE autonomous fleet for several years, testing and commercial robotaxi operations. On Monday, the alphabet company finally provided a peek on the commercial side of the fleet.

Waymo Monday, As part of a larger adHe has more than 1,500 commercial robotaxes in the operation. A new factory in Arizona is working to expand a multi-million dollar investment with Magna to build a 2000 autonomous i-templative vehicle.

Waymo has been in a closed device in the Detroit, ie with the years, Magna. The new 239,000-square-meter factory around the Frenchman’s Phoenix is ​​located in one of the Robotaxi markets of Waymo and close to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin.

A Waymo spokesman said Techcrunch looked at other places, but eventually chose Mesa for its proximity to other markets, and consistently made the direction of robotaxis to the confirmation process that can be used by the public.

Waymo said that the factory received by Jaguar earlier this year was in a blog post of the fact. From here, the Contract Builder Magna and Waymo seize the self-control system to integrate the vehicles. Waymo stressed that AVs can serve themselves outside the object and serve directly from the facility and a new process designed to speed up the process of using production.

“In fact, after leaving the factory, the first public passengers can get one in 30 minutes,” said Waymo, in the post. The company said it could be placed in public service for several hours after being sent to the local depot of vehicles intended for other cities.

MESA Factory was designed to manage other vehicles platforms, the last time this year is designed to connect the uniqueness of six generations of six generations to ZEEKR RT.

The plant will provide an automated montage line and other efficiency in accordance with the plant, it will be able to build tens of thousands of full autonomous Mukhur road vehicles in full power of the plant.