The competition around self driving technology is heating up. Now, there’s another company getting ready to scale up through an IPO.
What’s happening:
- Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company Pony AI has officially announced their plans to IPO and become listed on the Nasdaq
Why it matters:
- Pony AI is one of the largest autonomous vehicle technology companies in China and has multiple notable partnerships with massive automakers including Toyota
- Self driving technology has continued to have a heightened importance in the public markets lately, following new autonomous vehicle prototypes from Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) being debuted
By the numbers:
- Pony AI has completed over 32M kilometres of autonomous road testing
- Pony AI currently operates a fleet of approximately 400 autonomous vehicles throughout China and is also operational in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Going deeper:
- Pony AI's autonomous vehicle technology can be used in robotaxis, commercial freight vehicles and personal vehicles
- WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD) just recently became the first autonomous vehicle company to successfully complete an IPO onto a major stock exchange in the United States of America, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh capital
