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Baidu , the tech company sometimes called the “Google of China” announced its new 6th generation robotaxi, with plans to deploy 1,000 of them in Wuhan this year. They also forecast they will be profitable in 2025 The new vehicle, which costs them 200,000 RMB to build is half the cost of their previous generation vehicle.
They are also lowering costs by automating a lot of their depot operations. These vehicles use automatic battery swap to recharge, and Apollo Go states that vehicle activation, dispatch, cleaning and retrieval will all be done without human intervention. On the software side, they announced a new foundation model will now be doing the driving, and is flexible enough to deploy in new cities with about 6 months of effort.
Indeed this vehicle—though made to Chinese standards and pricing—undercuts the likely forecast price for the “Tesla Model 2” which Tesla recently put on the backburner in favor of a robotaxi. Chinese standards are improving, but there is one snag in bringing those lower costs to the USA—a planned 100% tariff on EV import from China. But even at double the price, this vehicle is cheaper than any planned robocar in the USA.
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