Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi forecast about 700 robotaxis on the company’s platform by the end of 2026 and more than 2,000 in 2027. At Uber’s November 4 earnings call, he also outlined a US rollout sequence involving a planned Las Vegas launch, tests with Nuro and Lucid, and commercial service expected in the San Francisco Bay Area before Houston. Smart Cities Dive reported the remarks in a story republished by Yahoo Finance on November 6 (the report).
What Uber’s forecast covers
The 700 and 2,000-plus figures are forecasts for robotaxis on Uber’s platform. Khosrowshahi also described a longer-term goal of tens of thousands of vehicles in 2028 and beyond. That longer horizon points to the scale Uber wants to reach; it is separate from the specific year-by-year forecast.
This is the fleet-scale side of a broader strategy NeoTeo previously covered in its report on Uber’s proposal to combine robotaxis with human drivers.
Keep the platform forecast, the city-by-city rollout and the Rivian partnership ceiling in their own time frames: each describes a different part of Uber’s expansion plans.
The reported US rollout sequence
Uber planned a driverless Zoox launch in Las Vegas later in November 2026, with Motional vehicles expected to follow. The company also expected fully driverless testing with Nuro and Lucid during the fourth quarter of 2026.
Commercial service was expected in the San Francisco Bay Area early in 2027, followed by Houston and other cities. These are prospective milestones in the November 6 account, with no exact launch day given for Las Vegas or Houston.
Rivian’s program has a longer horizon
A separate partnership plan involves the Rivian R2. In a March 19 account, electrive reported an initial phase of 10,000 vehicles and an option for fleet partners to supply up to 40,000 more. The first operations were planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028, with an expansion target of 25 cities across the United States, Canada and Europe by 2031 (electrive’s report).
The same account described an initial $300 million investment and the possibility of up to $1.25 billion over five years, contingent on autonomous-driving milestones and deadlines. Those investment terms belong to the Rivian partnership, not to a rider fare or the near-term platform forecast.
An earlier plan named international markets
In February, La República, carrying Bloomberg reporting, named Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston and Zurich among Uber’s planned robotaxi markets and reported an aim to reach more than 10 markets worldwide by the end of 2026 (the report). That earlier international plan sits alongside, rather than inside, the US milestones Khosrowshahi outlined in November.
