US EditionAmazon hopes to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory, challenging Waymo
- Amazon-owned Zoox opened a 220,000-square-foot robotaxi factory in Hayward, California, in 2024 to begin commercial service later this year.
- Zoox developed custom electric robotaxis with no steering wheel and extensive sensor arrays after testing autonomous tech on public roads since 2023.
- The AT-scale factory mixes human workers and robots to assemble vehicles, performing rigorous end-of-line testing before deployment in Las Vegas and later San Francisco.
- Zoox CEO Aicha Evans highlighted a key to profitability is long service life with dozens of rides daily, saying, "We're selling rides, not vehicles."
- Zoox plans to scale production to 10,000 robotaxis annually to expand to multiple U.S. cities, aiming to compete with Waymo's established ride-hailing services.
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Zoox Opens Factory In Hayward, City Very Pleased About This
Amazon-owned autonomous taxi company Zoox has opened a new production facility in Hayward, which is already employing around 100 technicians, and the City of Hayward is quite happy to welcome them.Zoox, if you haven't heard, is building the first "purpose-built robotaxis," meaning that instead of passenger vehicles with steering wheels and driver's seats that are retrofitted, like Waymo's autonomous Jaguar taxis, these are vehicles with only pas…
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Zoox opens 1st-of-its-kind robotaxi production facility in Bay Area
Amazon's Zoox says its new Hayward factory is the first-ever purpose-built robotaxi serial production facility in the U.S., and once at full scale, it will have the capacity to assemble more than 10,000 robotaxis a year.
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