Overview
- The partners announced Wednesday that Houston will be the second U.S. market after the San Francisco Bay Area, with paid service targeted for mid-2027.
- Uber has secured a 50,000-square-foot Houston depot with more than four megawatts of power, about 40 fast chargers and 15 service bays to handle charging, maintenance and fleet operations.
- Nuro is conducting supervised on-road testing in Houston and the three companies run an engineering fleet of nearly 100 Lucid Gravity vehicles across California and Texas for mapping and data collection.
- Lucid will build production‑validation robotaxis at its Arizona factory that will carry Nuro Driver Level‑4 autonomy and a redundant sensor suite including lidar, radar and cameras for safety testing and homologation.
- If regulators and validation steps proceed on schedule the partners plan to scale toward at least 35,000 robotaxis across dozens of markets, a shift that could reduce driver pay costs, change how people travel in cities and intensify competition with incumbents such as Waymo.