Waymo Expands To Denver And Seattle With Its Zeekr-made Vans

Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring some of its vehicles — nan Jaguar I-Pace SUV and nan Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, nan latest move successful a continued description crossed nan United States.

The vehicles will beryllium manually driven to start, earlier nan institution starts testing its autonomous tech successful some cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to commencement offering robotaxi trips successful Denver adjacent twelvemonth and nan Seattle metropolitan area “as soon arsenic we’re permitted to do so.” Denver and Seattle will beryllium 2 of nan astir extreme-weather cities that Waymo is emotion out, giving it a chance to trial retired its tech successful snow, wind, and rainfall that is harder to travel by successful places for illustration Phoenix.

The caller cities subordinate a increasing database of places wherever Waymo is operating successful nan U.S. Just past week nan institution announced that it has much than 2,000 robotaxis successful its commercialized fleet country-wide, pinch 800 successful nan San Francisco Bay Area, 500 successful Los Angeles, 400 successful Phoenix, 100 successful Austin, and “dozens” successful Atlanta. Waymo has besides announced plans to motorboat a commercial robotaxi services successful Dallas, Miami, and Washington, D.C., adjacent year, and precocious received a licence to start testing successful New York City.

That’s not to mention nan different cities wherever Waymo has dipped its toes. It’s brought vehicles connected so-called “road trips” to places for illustration Philadelphia, and plans to do nan aforesaid successful Las Vegas, San Diego, Houston, Orlando, and San Antonio.