Waymo To Use Chinese Geely Robotaxi Body. This Should Send Shivers Into Western OEMs

((Waymo announced today it will integrate its technology into a robotaxi base from Chinese manufacturer Geely. Geely owns Volvo and this vehicle was designed in Sweden, it will be under the Geely Zeekr brand and most likely be manufactured in China. China has been, for several years now, the leading car manufacturing country in the world but its cars are not seen very often in western countries and particularly not in the USA...

...The long-term goal for robotaxi players is to make a service that can function as a car replacement. That urban dwellers will decide to use that service and reduce the number of cars they own; first from 3 to 2 or 2 to 1, but in some cases to zero. Instead they will buy everything as a service from the robotaxi company: Vehicle, energy, maintenance, parking, insurance, financing, repairs and more.

They won’t even know they have switched to a Chinese maker from a western one...)))

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2021/12/28/waymo-to-use-chinese-geely-robotaxi-body--this-should-send-shivers-into-western-oems/?sh=46f8b7d85971