Meet the Geely EVA Cab Robotaxi, which showcases all of the Chinese maker’s autonomous tech and has been designed from the ground up to be an electric, driverless taxi to rival the likes of the Tesla Cybercab and Waymo taxis.
Currently being trialled in various prototype tests, the EVA Cab Robotaxi uses ‘Quantum-Level AI’ and the world’s first 2,160-line Lidar to help deliver Level 4 autonomy – meaning that there’s no driver. You just get in, tell it where you want to go, and the car takes you.
Geely tells us that the Quantum AI Electronic Architecture is used to ensure the highest level of safety, in terms of preventing remote hacking of the vehicle controls, cloning of the access card or key, and much more. It’s a pivotal part of the EVA Cab’s arsenal of tech.
You may have heard of the latest chips that many manufacturers are using to speed up infotainment response times, among other benefits. Well, the Robotaxi gets all of them. There are no less that three so-called ‘flagship’ chips, including two NVIDIA chips and a Qualcomm Snapdragon
Eva Cab is also equipped with the industry's most powerful in-vehicle computing platform. It integrates three flagship chips—the NVIDIA SuperChip, NVIDIA Thor U, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8397—delivering a combined computing power exceeding 3,000 TOPS (or Trillions of Operations per Second).
I don’t know what that really means, either, but safe to say that it translates to real-world benefits including super-rapid infotainment and enough computing power to juggle and respond to all of the information that an autonomous vehicle needs to take in.
The Robotaxi is designed as a private hire vehicle from the ground up, so the doors slide wide open for better access, and inside you get luxuries such as a Galaxy Skyroof and even "Orchid Pavilion and Meandering Streams" armrests.
The EVA Cab Robotaxi be used by Geely’s CAOCAO Mobility business as an autonomous hire vehicle starting in a handful of Chinese cities in 2028 before being rolled out to the rest of the Chinese market – and possibly beyond depending on the legislation restrictions. Currently the law prevents fully autonomous vehicles from being used on the UK’s road, so it’ll be a while before we see one in the UK.
CAOCAO has announced plans to roll out Geely’s autonomous taxis into 100 cities worldwide, and establish five global operation centres, by 2030. So if you like your Ubers but don't like your Uber drivers, the Robotaxi could be for you.
