Waymo scaling fleet through U.S. manufacturing with new factory with Magna

Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Waymo said in a blog post that, “Today, Waymo One provides more than 250,000 paid trips each week across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, and we’re preparing to bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing to Atlanta, Miami, and Washington, D.C. in 2026. We’re proud to bring this technology – once thought to be the stuff of science fiction – to more and more riders across this country. Scaling Waymo One and meeting the increasing demand of our riders requires a growing fleet of vehicles integrated with our generalizable Waymo Driver. To support our growing U.S. ridership, we’re investing in our American manufacturing operation with a new autonomous vehicle factory in Metro Phoenix with our partners at Magna (MGA). The Waymo Driver integration plant will build thousands of Jaguar I-PACEs equipped with our fully autonomous technology, which we design and assemble in the U.S. At 239,000 square feet, this factory is a multi-million dollar investment and has created hundreds of jobs in Mesa, AZ that support our future growth plans.”