Amazon’s Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of Las Vegas launch
Amazon’s Zoox Robotaxi unit increases vehicle production in a new facility in Hayward, California.
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Amazon-Autonomous vehicle initiative Zoox opened a new production facility expanding in San Francisco Gulf Region, and this year, he opened the way for more Robotaxi production because he planned to be launched commercially.
The company will use the site in Hayward in California to significantly increase the Robotaxi fleet. The facility is currently producing a robotaxi a day, but Zoox said it expects to accelerate production next year.
The company said exactly that it will have 10,000 robotax assembly capacity per year and will produce about three robotaxes per hour. Zoox did not provide a timeline to reach this level of production.
Zoox CEO Aicha Evans, during a tour of the production floor of the facility, “we do not sell them because we do not need to crank a vehicle every minute.” He said.
Zoox, founded 11 years ago and was purchased by Amazon for $ 1.3 billion in 2020, the USA Zoox needs more toast to round the assembly line to fulfill the mission of using a commercial driving greeting service.
The company currently has several dozen Robotaxis on the public roads in Foster City, California, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Evans said that Zoox ultimately expects to work in small-middle-sized cities where he offers services between 500 to 1,000 robotaxi.
The facility, which covers the 3.5 football field, relys on a mixture of human technicians and robots to bring together Zoox’s ordered vehicles.
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Rivalry
Zoox is competing to capture AlphabetWaymo, which runs completely public driverless driving service in Waymo, USA, has expanded to new US markets in recent years and provides more than 250,000 paid trip every week throughout Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin.
Evans said that Zoox was “very proud of Waymo’s progress, and that Zoox and others helped to confirm their work to distribute an autonomic driving greeting service.
Zoox Inc. CEO Aicha Evans speaks on Thursday, June 22, 2023 during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, USA.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Robotaxi is preparing to launch his service in Austin on June 22, but Musk warned that the company could change because the company is “super paranoid in terms of security”.
Zoox is preparing to start public drive later on this year in Las Vegas, his first commercial market. San Francisco is expected to follow in 2026, and the additional places in Austin and Miami come in the next few years.
Similar to other rideshare services Uber And LyftZoox riders can greet a robotaxi through an application.
Raise production
Unlike Waymo, who uses Geely Zeekr Miniivans, Zoox has developed its own specially -made “transport style” tools, where four passengers have met each other and no steering wheel. Evans described Robotaxis as “senior computers on wheels”.
Zoox CTO Jesse Levinon He said it before The cost of improving Zoox’s ordering robotax is “important”. Levinon said that the cost of each vehicle should decrease when scalaning Zoox’s fleet.
Zoox, roughly 3.5 football field covering the new facility, President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies, considering the well -timed move in the United States “only dedicated to the purpose of producing Robotaxis” is the first site, he said. The facility was occupied by the bus manufacturer Gillig before Zoox’s arrival.
Approximately half of the company’s suppliers are in the US, but also provide some parts of countries, including China and Italy.
Evans said that Zoox could open international additional production facilities in other parts of the United States and over time.
Zoox’s autonomous car has up to four passengers.
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The facility is located right across Zoox’s headquarters in Fosifornia, Fosifornia. Company It also works In Fremont, California, now a small production facility that allows them to assemble the test fleet of the stimulated Toyota SUVs and configure the sensor capsules sitting on the robotaxis and see them in all directions.
Hayward is currently employing about 100 technicians. Zoox also uses robots for certain tasks on the ground, such as applying adhesive for glass installation and moving Robotaxi to the station line from the station to the assembly line.
After the vehicle is installed, it passes through the end -line test. This includes a calibration slot to ensure that all cameras and sensors work properly, a station that tested stress transfer organs at high speeds, and then takes a “shower” in a ranking rain storm to control any leakage.
Zoox, Robotaxis, takes a few rounds around a test track behind a test runway behind the facility, Zooox said.
Zoox increased marketing while preparing to open his service to the public.
Iz We have to announce ourselves because the vehicle looks very different, Ev Evans said.
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