Lucid and Bolt to deploy 25,000 autonomous EVs across Europe

This is car and mobility news, not a home energy story, but here is what happened. Lucid, the electric vehicle maker, and Bolt, a European ride-hailing company with over 200 million customers across 850 cities, announced a plan to put at least 25,000 self-driving Lucid EVs onto Bolt's network. It's part of a longer-term goal of 100,000 autonomous vehicles on the platform by 2035. The cars would be built on a Lucid vehicle line called Midsize and designed for a high level of self-driving capability (SAE Level 4, meaning the car can drive itself in most conditions without a human at the wheel).

There are some real gaps between the announcement and an actual rollout. The Midsize platform these cars depend on isn't built yet, and Lucid delayed that program back in August as part of a broader company shakeup that included layoffs, a pulled 2026 production forecast, and a slow quarter for deliveries. Lucid is also only supplying the hardware in this deal; the self-driving software itself is expected to come from other technology partners, so the harder engineering problem is still unresolved. Neither company gave a date for when the fleet would actually start operating.

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