Lucid Motors and European mobility platform Bolt announced a partnership on Thursday under which Bolt “aims to deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous vehicles” built on Lucid’s upcoming mid-size EV platform. Bolt frames the deal as a step toward its stated goal of 100,000 autonomous vehicles operating on its platform by 2035.
The vehicles will use Nvidia’s Hyperion autonomous-vehicle compute and sensing architecture, but neither company said who will supply the actual driving software, and Lucid declined to provide further detail beyond the press release. Bolt would own and operate the fleet, with the two companies co-designing the vehicle from the product development stage. No money has changed hands and Bolt has not placed an order.
The announcement lands as Lucid works through a difficult stretch. New chief executive Silvio Napoli has cut nearly a fifth of the company’s workforce and pushed the mid-size platform’s launch back almost a year, to the second half of 2027, the same platform this robotaxi fleet depends on. Lucid has also yet to deploy a commercial robotaxi on either of its current vehicles, despite a year-old partnership with Uber and Nuro to launch one using its Gravity SUV by the end of 2026.
Bolt’s founder Markus Villig called Lucid “a world-class platform” and pointed to Bolt’s operating experience across more than 850 cities as the missing piece for European deployment. What the announcement does not include is a vehicle that exists, software that is named, or a date, leaving Lucid to add a second unfinished robotaxi commitment to a first one it has not delivered.
