Bolt wants 100,000 robotaxis across Europe
Bolt wants to grow into an operator with one hundred thousand self-driving taxis on the road by around 2035, according to chief executive Jevgeni Kabanov in an interview with the French publication L’Usine Digitale.
Like its international rivals, Bolt is working with technology companies to build such a network. Only Tesla manufactures the cars it then operates within a network itself to keep costs down.
Lyft, Grab, Uber and Bolt are all at least working with Nvidia on its Drive Hyperion software. In addition, each has one or more other partners; Kabanov, for example, is working with carmaker Stellantis on vehicle production and with Pony.ai for its software.
Bolt primarily sees itself as a company that mediates between taxis and passengers, but in the long term they will have robotaxis alongside human drivers. What the intended ratio will be is not yet known.
The ‘European Uber’ from Estonia will work with robotaxis that have remote supervisors. It is estimated that a single supervisor will be able to monitor somewhere between 30 and 50 taxis, and step in if necessary.
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