EVwire brief: CaoCao, the Geely-owned mobility service platform, and US autonomous-driving firm May Mobility have struck a strategic partnership to commercialize robotaxis abroad, starting in Europe.
Under the deal, CaoCao will own and run the fleets, handling ride-hailing operations, maintenance and large-scale commercial operations, while May Mobility supplies the self-driving technology through its Autonomy-as-a-Service platform.
The two plan joint feasibility studies and pilot programs in key markets, working from validation toward scaled deployment.
CaoCao and May Mobility’s partnership is designed to commercialize robotaxis abroad, starting in Europe
The partnership feeds CaoCao's RoboX strategy, unveiled June 18, the company's pivot toward becoming an AI-driven mobility-technology platform, and pushes that strategy beyond China for the first time.
May Mobility already operates autonomous services in the US and Japan and has logged more than half a million commercial rides. It will help power fleets toward CaoCao's stated goal of putting 100,000 robotaxis on the road by 2030. CaoCao CEO Gong Xin commented on the partnership.
“International expansion is a key direction for CaoCao’s autonomous driving business. Europe offers diverse real-world environments and strong potential for robotaxi commercialization.
“Through our collaboration with May Mobility, we aim to combine our strengths in operations with their leadership in autonomous driving technology to accelerate validation and deployment across different markets.”
May Mobility has a variety of partners, including Uber
Context:
May Mobility, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, licenses its self-driving stack to operators rather than running its own branded service, counting Toyota, NTT, Lyft, Uber and Grab among its partners. Its system is built to reason through unfamiliar roads, which the two companies frame as the key to adapting quickly to new countries.
CaoCao is Geely Holding's shared-mobility arm, which makes this another Chinese-linked push into Europe's fast-filling robotaxi race, where players such as Bolt and Pony.ai are already lining up 2026 launches.
Source: May Mobility
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