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Geely Debuts Eva Cab, a Purpose-Built Robotaxi With L4 Claims and a 2027 Launch Plan

The mobility unit Caocao targets a 2027 rollout that scales to 100,000 cars by 2030.

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Geely has unveiled what it calls China’s first native robotaxi prototype, the Eva Cab - an autonomous vehicle built from the ground up around AI.
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Overview

  • The prototype, which Geely revealed Thursday at Auto China in Beijing, is pitched as China’s first purpose-built robotaxi.
  • Caocao says it will put thousands of customized Eva Cabs on roads in 2027 in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and five mainland Chinese cities, then move to large-scale deliveries in 2028 and a 100,000-vehicle fleet by 2030.
  • Geely describes a full-domain AI driving stack co-developed with Afari that it says can enable Level 4 autonomy for driverless service.
  • The company touts a 2,160-line digital LiDAR and a high-performance compute platform using NVIDIA and Qualcomm chips, with claims of long-range sensing and rapid decision-making.
  • Pilot services have run for over a year in Hangzhou and Suzhou, and any wider driverless rollout will still need local approvals and independent safety validation as rivals like Tesla and Xpeng advance their own robotaxi plans.