{"id":13890,"date":"2022-01-26T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13890"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:12:13","slug":"waymo-and-zeekr-to-develop-all-electric-autonomous-ride-hailing-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13890","title":{"rendered":"Waymo and Zeekr to develop all-electric, autonomous ride-hailing vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new purpose-built mobility vehicle is being designed and developed at Zeekr\u2019s R&amp;D facility, CEVT (China Europe Vehicle Technology Centre) in Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbodydesign.com\/gallery\/2022\/01\/waymo-and-zeekr-to-develop-all-electric-autonomous-ride-hailing-vehicle\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-post-fullwidth wp-image-86832\" src=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-720x405.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Waymo Zeekr Autonomous vehicle Exterior Design\" srcset=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-720x405.jpg 720w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-234x132.jpg 234w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-355x200.jpg 355w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-768x432.jpg 768w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-02.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1900px) 90vw, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under this collaboration, Zeekr will be designing and developing the future vehicle on a new proprietary and open-source mobility architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo will take delivery of the vehicles in the United States and will then integrate its fully autonomous Waymo Driver into the vehicle platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbodydesign.com\/gallery\/2022\/01\/waymo-and-zeekr-to-develop-all-electric-autonomous-ride-hailing-vehicle\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-post-fullwidth wp-image-86831\" src=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-720x405.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Waymo Zeekr Autonomous vehicle Interior Design\" srcset=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-720x405.jpg 720w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-234x132.jpg 234w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-355x200.jpg 355w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-768x432.jpg 768w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Interior-Design-01.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1900px) 90vw, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new vehicle will be designed to be rider-centric from the outset. The new Zeekr vehicle has been designed for autonomous use-cases and will come with a fully configurable cabin, both with and without driver controls, that can be tailored towards rider requirements for the Waymo One unmanned ride-hailing fleet in the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbodydesign.com\/gallery\/2022\/01\/waymo-and-zeekr-to-develop-all-electric-autonomous-ride-hailing-vehicle\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-post-fullwidth wp-image-86830\" src=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-720x540.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Waymo Zeekr Autonomous vehicle Exterior Design\" srcset=\"\/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-720x540.jpg 720w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-234x176.jpg 234w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-355x266.jpg 355w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-120x90.jpg 120w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-768x576.jpg 768w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, \/media\/2022\/01\/Waymo-Zeekr-Autonomous-vehicle-Exterior-Design-01.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1900px) 90vw, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zeekr was founded in early 2021 as a global technology-mobility brand with design and engineering resources in Sweden. The first model from Zeekr, the 001, was introduced in April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Zeekr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new purpose-built mobility vehicle is being designed and developed at Zeekr\u2019s R&amp;D facility, CEVT (China Europe Vehicle Technology Centre) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Under this collaboration, Zeekr will be designing and developing the future vehicle on a new proprietary and open-source mobility architecture. Waymo will take delivery of the vehicles in the United States and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}