EVwire brief: Bolt has chosen NVIDIA's Alpamayo Stack as the driving software for its European robotaxi program, which will start with Lucid vehicles in Madrid in 2027.
Bolt President and Head of Autonomous Driving Jevgeni Kabanov said the pick completes the core technology behind the company's European robotaxis. NVIDIA supplies the Hyperion compute and sensor platform, the Alpamayo software and its Halos safety tools, Lucid provides its Midsize vehicle platform, and Bolt handles integration, fleet operations and the work with cities and regulators.
Kabanov laid out the three-way split and the staged rollout on LinkedIn:
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Madrid is up first. Pending regulatory approval, Bolt's Lucid vehicles will spend their initial phase there collecting real-world driving data that will feed into developing and validating the system, with Germany and France next in line as priority markets.
The program is meant to set the stage for at least 25,000 Level 4-ready Lucid vehicles fitted with NVIDIA Hyperion, a key piece of Bolt's plan to have 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform across Europe and the wider UNECE region by 2035.
Under the hood, Alpamayo runs on Hyperion and blends reasoning AI with classical perception and planning. Bolt and NVIDIA will tailor the software for European roads and bring it to vehicles from several automakers over time, with Lucid going first. Bolt Autonomous Driving Solutions, the company's self-driving unit, will lead the development and commercial launch of the service.
Bolt also announced the update on LinkedIn:
NVIDIA's Rishi Dhall framed the deal around building every robotaxi on the same base:
"Robotaxis will scale when every vehicle is built on a common, safety-engineered foundation. NVIDIA Hyperion standardizes the compute and sensor architecture across vehicle platforms, while NVIDIA Alpamayo Stack and Halos provide the driving intelligence and safety foundation."
The NVIDIA and Lucid program follows Bolt's first autonomous mobility launch in Luxembourg and runs alongside its separate robotaxi work with Pony.ai and Stellantis.
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Context:
The Bolt program is the latest piece of Lucid's growing robotaxi business. The two companies first announced their European partnership in September, with Bolt targeting at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles built on Lucid's upcoming Midsize platform and co-designed around NVIDIA Hyperion. Alpamayo now fills in the software side of that deal.
In the U.S., Lucid's robotaxi efforts run through Uber and Nuro. Uber first committed in July 2025 to deploying at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity robotaxis powered by the Nuro Driver, then raised that target to 35,000 or more in April while bringing its total investment in Lucid to $500 million. The San Francisco Bay Area is set to be the trio's first market, with Houston next and public rides there expected by mid-2027. Hertz-backed Oro Mobility, which just raised $80 million, will manage that fleet for Uber.
Source: Bolt, Jevgeni Kabanov and Bolt on LinkedIn
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