Uber announced his third partnership with a Chinese autonomous vehicle company this week, revealing the appetite of the giant and the deliveries for global domain in the emerging robotaxi sector.
Uber said Tuesday that he would work with pony at the headquarters in Guangzhou, who at the end of last year went public on Nasdaq with an evaluation of $ 5.25 billion, to launch Robotaxis on the Uber platform in “a key market in the Middle East” at the end of this year.
The pony bond comes the day after Uber shared the plans for two other strategic agreements with Chinese companies: Momenta and Weride. Uber said he would work with moment to launch robotass on his app in Europe in 2026 and with Weride to expand in 15 cities in the Middle East and Europe in the next five years. Uber and Weride have already launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi.
The agreements with Pony, Momenta and Weride are added to the growing list of Uber of over 15 other autonomous partnerships of vehicles through travel, delivery and freight transport. Most Uber partners, who include Waymo and May Mobility, are based in the United States, with some anomalous values such as the UK Wayve.
While Uber faces the threats perceived by companies such as Tesla, who intends to launch his first robotaxi service to Austin next month, the federal probes for alleged misleading subscription practices and a planned shopping bus for consumers in 2025, the company moves quickly to reassure investors to reassure investors who are still a lot of space for expansion.
Combining Chinese companies could be an intelligent way to achieve that growth. Chinese AV companies are already expanding internationally. In addition to Abu Dhabi, Weride manages commercial services in Beijing and France and tests in many other markets in China and Europe. Pony offers robotaxi for a fee in three Chinese cities and recently started testing in Luxembourg.
Waymo, the only AV company in the United States that today manages a commercial and driver -free service, has just started the collection of data in Tokyo.
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The Pony partnership with Uber opens the company to the Middle Eastern market. Uber already had a strong presence in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, a presence that expanded in 2019 when Uber acquired his rival Middle East Carem.
In a press release, Pony said that the goal of Uber’s agreement is to reduce the deposit to further “international markets” in the future.
As with the other Uber launches, when Pony joins the app, Uber customers will have the opportunity to make their journey from an AV. During the initial pilot phase, vehicles will have a security operator on board up to the full commercial launch of the companies.
The call of the profits of the first trimester of Uber is this week, so we will probably get more color on the company’s growth plans, including its passage to acquire a control participation in a Turkish food delivery company and as required to surf the current challenges.
