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Amazon plans 10,000 Zoox robotaxis per year by 2027
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Jun 19, 2025
Amazon plans to produce up to 10,000 robotaxis annually by 2027 as it aims to compete with Waymo and Tesla in the autonomous taxi market.
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Amazon expects to build up to 10,000 robo-taxis annually by 2027
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It plans to achieve this by using its new 220,000-square-foot factory near Silicon Valley
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Amazon is joining Tesla in challenging Waymo's dominance in the autonomous taxi game
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The announcement Wednesday is a major step in Amazon's pursuit of pioneering autonomous vehicle
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technology. The industry kicked off in 2009 when rival Waymo kickstarted efforts within Google
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Amazon will begin with taking riders in Las Vegas later this year and then expand to San Francisco
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Zoox, which is a brand Amazon's taxi service will use, is competing against Waymo, which introduced
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robo-taxis in Phoenix nearly five years ago and began taking customers in San Francisco in 2023
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Waymo is now in Los Angeles and Austin. The company says it's completed more than 10 million paid rides, while Amazon and Tesla are still getting their feet wet, trying to figure out how to mass produce fleets
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Amazon believes it now has the answer with its new plant that's roughly the size of three and a half football fields
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The facility sits in Hayward, California, just about 17 miles from a Tesla plant that produces
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EVs, which CEO Elon Musk says will eventually be able to operate without a driver. Zooks' new
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high facility where vehicles are built along a multi assembly line currently produces one robo a day but eventually aims to produce three vehicles per hour By 2027 Duke says it will be making 10 robo a year for its
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fleet in major cities like L.A., Miami, and Atlanta. It's assembling the vehicles in the U.S.
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but roughly half of the parts are coming from outside the country. Waymo says it also expects
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to expand its operations to Atlanta and Miami and just said it intends to begin testing its
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robo-taxis in the Big Apple. As its pilot program continues in Sin City, Zooks recently partnered
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with Resorts World, offering guests a ride in its robo-taxis. The company is also running tests in
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San Francisco, where Waymo is already dominating the market. Zooks has experienced some hiccups
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particularly in San Francisco. The company issued a voluntary recall to revamp its self-driving
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technology after a person on an electric scooter was struck by one of its robo-taxis
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The person was not hurt. Tesla is also fighting to take the lead among robo-taxis, with Musk long vowing to create
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the world's largest robo-taxi service. Musk predicted in 2009 Tesla would operate a million robo-taxis by now
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He's since cooled his ambitions, going for a more phased rollout. Tesla cyber taxis are slated to hit the roads in Austin this Sunday as part of a test run
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For more on this story, download the Shader News app or visit san.com
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For Shader News, I'm Kaylee Carey
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