Lucid Group and European shared mobility platform Bolt have announced a strategic partnership to develop and deploy autonomous mobility services across Europe, combining Lucid’s software-defined vehicle technology with Bolt’s regional data, operating infrastructure and mobility expertise.
Built on vehicles from Lucid’s upcoming Midsize platform, Bolt plans to deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous vehicles across multiple European cities and countries — a significant early step toward its longer-term goal of 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform by 2035.
Lucid CEO Silvio Napoli described shared autonomous mobility as a natural way to extend the company’s technology beyond individual consumer vehicles, pointing to Bolt’s reach and operating experience as the right fit for scaling autonomous mobility across the region.
Bolt Founder and CEO Markus Villig said autonomous driving in Europe demands data, software, vehicles and operations functioning as one system built specifically for European roads and regulation, and that Bolt’s data and more than a decade of experience operating across over 850 cities positions the two companies to run autonomous mobility efficiently at scale.
Building Toward Level 4 Autonomy
The partnership starts at the product-development stage, with both companies co-designing an autonomous driving system-ready vehicle platform built for SAE Level 4 autonomy.
The platform is expected to run on NVIDIA Hyperion, a production-ready reference architecture that pairs high-performance compute with a standardized sensor suite.
Who Does What
Bolt Autonomous Driving Solutions, the company’s dedicated autonomous-driving unit, will lead the partnership on Bolt’s side, covering everything from co-designing and integrating the technology through commercial operation.
That includes defining vehicle requirements along with software, safety and rider-experience standards, building the fleet infrastructure, operating systems and city partnerships needed to deploy vehicles at scale, and ultimately owning and operating the fleet itself.
On Lucid‘s side, the partnership runs through the newly formed Lucid Technologies division, which consolidates the company’s artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistance, autonomy and broader digital capabilities under one structure.
Both companies plan to work alongside autonomous-driving technology partners and European regulators and policymakers to support a safe, scalable rollout across the region, with the European focus specifically chosen to meet the high bar for vehicle, technology and regulatory requirements there.