Waymo raises the production of Robotaxi in the New Arizona Factory

Waymo played COY for years about the Jaguar I-Pace EVS in its independent fleet-a number that covers the vehicles used in test operations and Robotaxi commercial operations. On Monday, the alphabet finally presented a peek on the commercial side of the fleet.

And Emo said on Monday, As part of a larger advertisementIt has more than 1500 commercial robots in the process. Work is underway to expand it by investing millions of dollars with Magna to build more than 2000 autonomous I-Pace vehicles in a new factory in Arizona.

Waymo has worked with Magna for years, and she is now closed in Detroit. The new factory, which has an area of ​​239,000 square feet, is strategically located in Missa in a Waymo’s Robotaxi market and near other service areas via San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin.

A Waymo Techcrunch spokeswoman told that the company looked at other sites, but in the end it chose Mesa for its proximity to other markets and because the consistent weather made it ideal for the process of verifying the required health before the public used robots.

Wimo said in a blog post announced by the factory that he had received the final delivery from Jaguar earlier this year. From here, Builder Contract Magna and Waymo integrate the self -driving system into vehicles. Waymo emphasized a new process designed to accelerate the use of production and verify healthy, noting that AVS can get itself out of the facility and direct service.

“In fact, these vehicles can pick up their first public passengers after less than 30 minutes of leaving the factory,” said Waymo in the blog post. The company said that vehicles designated for other cities can be deployed in the public service within hours after shipping to their local warehouse.

The Mesa Factory is designed to deal with other vehicle platforms, especially to integrate the sixth generation of the Waymo self -driving system into Zekr RT later this year.

The factory will provide an automatic collection line and other competencies over time, according to the company, which indicated that the factory will be able to build tens of thousands of fully independent Waymo vehicles per year when working at full capacity.