Robotaxi maker Zoox announced a new 220,000-square-foot production plant in Hayward, California, ahead of the company’s official public launch in Las Vegas later this year and in San Francisco next year.
The Foster City-based company hopes the new plant will be making 10,000 of Zoox’s all-electric, fully autonomous vehicles per year by 2027.
Zoox is currently producing one robotaxi per day but hopes to expand into producing three vehicles per hour by 2026.
After being acquired by Amazon in 2020, Zoox prepared to compete in the robotaxi space with Google’s Waymo, which offers the world’s first publicly available autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One….