The U.S. is leading the world in the development and deployment of autonomous driving technology. Waymo One provides more than 250,000 paid trips each week across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, and the company is preparing to bring their fully autonomous ride-hailing to Atlanta, Miami, and Washington, D.C. in 2026.
The company says that scaling Waymo One and meeting the increasing demand of riders requires a growing fleet of vehicles integrated with their generalizable Waymo Driver. To support the growing U.S. ridership, Waymo is investing in their American manufacturing operation with a new autonomous vehicle factory in Metro Phoenix with their partners at Magna.
The Waymo Driver integration plant will build thousands of Jaguar I-PACEs equipped with our fully autonomous technology, which they 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 their future growth plans…