Neolix Seals Strategic Alliance with Salvador Caetano to Anchor European RoboVan Expansion

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Neolix Technologies has struck a strategic alliance with Portugal’s Salvador Caetano Auto that positions the Chinese RoboVan specialist to accelerate its entry into Europe’s smart logistics and autonomous mobility market, starting with a proof-of-concept deployment in Portugal. The deal, unveiled at CES 2026, leverages Neolix’s global fleet of more than 15,000 low-speed autonomous vehicles operating across 15 countries and its compliance with stringent European safety regulations, combined with Salvador Caetano’s extensive mobility footprint in over 48 countries and deep access to local logistics and industrial customers. For Neolix, Europe is framed as a priority growth region, and this partnership provides a de-risked route to commercialization by using Caetano’s network, regulatory relationships and on-the-ground market knowledge to localize its RoboVan solutions for European use cases.

The alliance will initially focus on validating Neolix’s autonomous logistics technologies in real-world industrial and urban logistics scenarios in Portugal, with both companies planning to jointly engage regulators to help shape a national autonomous-driving framework and, ultimately, enable scalable RoboVan rollouts across Europe. Over time, the collaboration is expected to evolve into a broader, long-term partnership covering technology co-development, joint market expansion and ecosystem-building around low-speed autonomous logistics, with Neolix’s platforms at the core. Executives from both sides characterize the agreement as a key step toward modernizing European last-mile and urban logistics with safer, more efficient and more sustainable solutions, while also deepening China–Europe cooperation in autonomous mobility. For Neolix’s stakeholders, the move signals a clear intent to convert its early global lead in commercial RoboVans into durable European market share, diversify revenue beyond China and other early markets, and influence emerging standards that could define the competitive landscape for autonomous logistics across the region.