“This partnership brings together three leaders, each with our own strengths: Stellantis’ vehicle expertise, Uber’s global mobility platform and Wayve’s embodied AI,” said Kaity Fischer, Wayve’s VP of Commercial and Operations.
As for the cars themselves, last year Stellantis announced that it intended to use its pre-existing vehicular architecture for this project, but the latest imagery suggests the taxis may actually be unique models.
Though specific details on launch timings or production capacity hasn’t been announced recently, last year Uber said it plans to launch services “in select cities worldwide, starting with 5,000 units, with initial operations beginning in the United States”. It is expected production won’t start until 2028, however, with testing to ramp up closer to that date.
That’s not to say we won’t see driverless Uber services in the UK before then, however. The firm has already announced its plans to offer pilot autonomous taxi rides in London from spring 2026 in line with Government legislation. These vehicles will be modified Ford Mustang Mach-E models, also powered by Wayve.
It’s worth noting that the launch of these Stellantis autonomous vehicles will come a long time after Tesla and Waymo enter the UK autonomous taxi market. The latter has declared it will also launch pilot services in London in 2026, whilst Tesla is yet to announce anything yet. It has been spotted testing its systems around the tricky streets of the nation’s capital, however.
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