{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/toyota-forms-joint-venture-with-pony-ai-to-mass-produce-robotaxis-in-china/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Toyota Forms Joint Venture With Pony.ai To Mass Produce Robotaxis In China","slug":"toyota-forms-joint-venture-with-pony-ai-to-mass-produce-robotaxis-in-china","createdLocal":"2023-08-09 14:31:15.290829","publishDate":"None","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://insideevs.com/news/680828/toyota-pony-ai-joint-venture-robotaxi/"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>Toyota Motor China Investment (TMCI), GAC Toyota Motor Co. (GTMC), and Pony.ai have announced they will form a joint venture with the purpose of mass producing Level 4-capable autonomous taxis and deploying these robotaxis at a large scale, the three entities said in a joint statement.\nThe three entities that will form the new joint venture will invest a combined $139.2 million (RMB 1 billion), with GTMC providing Pony.ai with Toyota-branded EVs which are equipped with the automaker’s vehicle redundancy systems that are suitable for Level 4 autonomous driving development.\nThe driverless Toyota taxis will run on Pony.ai’s newest robotaxi platform known as PonyPilot+.\nExecutives from Pony.ai, Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (TMCI) and GAC Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (GTMC) held a joint venture signing ceremony on August 4, 2023Back in April, the self-driving startup deployed the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS (S-AM) vehicle equipped with its sixth-generation autonomous driving software and hardware on public roads for testing in Beijing and Guangzhou.\nThe collaboration between Pony.ai and Toyota goes back to 2019, when the two companies announced they would work together to kickstart the development of autonomous vehicles in China, resulting in the first Lexus RX450h units equipped with self-driving tech hitting the streets of China in September of the same year.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"toyota-forms-joint-venture-with-pony-ai-to-mass-produce-robotaxis-in-china"}}}