{"id":378230,"date":"2026-09-18T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378230"},"modified":"2026-09-18T01:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:52:23","slug":"bolt-and-lucid-announce-25000-robotaxis-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bolt-and-lucid-announce-25000-robotaxis-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt and Lucid announce 25,000 robotaxis for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bolt.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Bolt<\/a> said today that it\u2019s teaming up with Lucid on a robotaxi push meant to put at least <strong>25,000 autonomous ride-hailing vehicles<\/strong> on the streets of European cities.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan, Bolt says, is to own and run the fleet itself. Longer term, it\u2019s talking about <strong>100,000 vehicles by 2035<\/strong>, built around ADS-ready SAE Level 4 cars that combine Bolt\u2019s operating data, Lucid\u2019s software-defined platform, and NVIDIA Hyperion. Bolt also expects to have a much bigger hand in the product itself: requirements, software, safety, rider experience, charging, maintenance, mapping, customer support, and city partnerships all fall into that picture.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For anyone who follows autonomous mobility in Europe, this one stands out. Europe is a harder place to crack than the US or China: older streets, denser cities, rain, and a patchwork of rules all make deployment tougher. Even so, forecasts still put the market at <strong>$661 million in 2025<\/strong> and $5.53 billion by 2035. Waymo is aiming for Germany by the end of 2027, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uber.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber<\/a> and Pony.ai are already moving.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What you can\u2019t do yet is book one of these rides. Bolt and Lucid still haven\u2019t named the first launch cities or given a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/will-robotaxis-make-the-progress-that-is-expected-in-the-coming-years\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial timeline<\/a><\/strong>. Bolt\u2019s announcement frames the deal as a strategic partnership, not a firm vehicle order, and the usual questions around safety, oversight, and crash investigations haven\u2019t gone away. Still, Bolt is making one thing pretty clear: Europe is no longer being treated as a secondary market in the robotaxi race.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolt said today that it\u2019s teaming up with Lucid on a robotaxi push meant to put at least 25,000 autonomous ride-hailing vehicles on the streets of European cities. The plan, Bolt says, is to own and run the fleet itself. Longer term, it\u2019s talking about 100,000 vehicles by 2035, built around ADS-ready SAE Level 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bolt-and-lucid-announce-25000-robotaxis-for-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bolt and Lucid announce 25,000 robotaxis for Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-378230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378231,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378230\/revisions\/378231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378230"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378230"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378230"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}