WeRide and Lenovo want to bring 200,000 autonomous vehicles to the road

Lenovo and WeRide want to bring a large number of autonomous vehicles to the road in the coming years. The two companies have agreed on a corresponding cooperation at the Auto China 2026 trade fair in Beijing.

The aim of the cooperation is to drive forward the commercialization of highly autonomous driving (SAE Level 4) worldwide, WeRide announced. To this end, the partners want to bring 200,000 autonomous vehicles to the road in the next five years.

This includes robotaxis, but not only: WeRide also operates other autonomous vehicles: delivery vans, buses, or street sweepers.

WeRide is active in 12 countries

WeRide develops systems for autonomous driving and is one of the major providers of autonomous taxi services in China, alongside Baidu and Pony.ai. According to its information, the company is active in more than 40 cities in 12 countries, including Belgium, France, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.

Lenovo is one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. It wants to contribute “its strengths in intelligent computing, as well as its global manufacturing and supply chain capabilities.” In addition, the group provides AI computing infrastructure for fleet deployment.

WeRide and Lenovo are already cooperating in the field of autonomous driving; last year, the two partners launched the HPC 3.0 computing platform. HPC 3.0 is based on Lenovo's AD1 domain controller for highly autonomous driving. It runs Nvidia's DRIVE AGX Thor. The first vehicle in which HPC 3.0 is installed is WeRide's Robotaxi GXR.

(wpl)