Apollo Go Reaches 20 Million Journeys, 190 Million Totally Driverless Kilometers

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We sometimes report on Waymo and different US-based robotaxi firms, however one of many largest robotaxi companies on the planet is Baidu’s Apollo Go. It first launched totally driverless robotaxis in China on July 20, 2022, and was the primary firm to launch them there.

Now we’ve information that, as of this month, Apollo Go has supplied 20 million rides — worldwide, because it does additionally provide robotaxi companies in some places exterior of China. Notice that Waymo handed 20 million passenger journeys in December 2025.

The corporate supplied 3.4 million robotaxi journeys in simply the 4th quarter of final 12 months. That was a 200% improve over the 4th quarter of 2024. In its peak week, the corporate supplied 300,000 such journeys.

As has been accomplished in any respect robotaxi firms, Apollo Go initially had people within the autos supervising the autonomous driving. With these journeys included, the corporate has now handed 300 million kilometers (186 million miles) of autonomous driving. Solely counting the totally driverless journeys, it has handed 190 million kilometers (118 million miles). That’s quite a lot of autonomous driving….

Together with offering these stats to the world, Baidu simply introduced that Apollo Go service has launched in South Korea. That ought to be a sizzling marketplace for the service.

Whereas most of Apollo Go’s enterprise is performed in Chain, the corporate has been increasing past China considerably. Uber & Lyft are purported to be testing Apollo Go robotaxis in London this 12 months, A public transport firm in Switzerland can also be beginning to use them. Apollo Go ought to be getting into different elements of Europe by Lyft this 12 months as effectively. It is usually moving into extra markets in Asia and the Center East by Uber. A little bit greater than a 12 months in the past, Apollo Go robotaxis launched in Hong Kong. I count on we’ll be listening to of its entry into a number of extra markets by 2026. Keep tuned.

And, one has to marvel: will Apollo Go be capable to move up Waymo in robotaxi rides? Each of them are increasing quickly, so it ought to be an attention-grabbing and tight race for robotaxi management in 2026. We will see.