China’s Lyft and Baidu seem to bring romance to Europe next year

The European expansion of Lyft will include Chinese robbery.

The US company that focuses on the company announced on Monday that it has made a strategic partnership with Baidu to develop the Chinese technology giant goals in various European markets. Companies want to launch Robot Services in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2026, pending the approval of regulatory regulation.

If approved, Baidu’s RT6 vehicles, equipped with Apollo’s self-guiding system, will be integrated into the Lyft Ride-Hailing application. Lyft CEO David Risher said the Robotaxi service is an example of the “hybrid network approach, where AVS and human drivers work together to provide riders for riders for riders.

Lyft has historically focused its businesses for the United States, while Uber opponent has expanded worldwide to other areas, such as food delivery. But earlier this year, Lyft bought its way to the European market when it agreed to obtain the German Freenow multiple mobility application from BMW and Mercedes-Benz Mobility for about $ 197 million in cash.

The acquisition has opened the European market in the Lyft, which operated only in the US and Canada since it started in 2012.

Lyft and Uber, both of which Sunsetted their own internal autonomous vehicles are in race to lock partnerships with companies such as Baidu, which have developed technology.

Uber has collaborated with more than 18 companies, covering the spectrum of how self-guiding systems can be implemented in the natural world, including route, tradition and truck. Only in this year, he announced the agreements with Ann Arbor, May Mocility Manciely and Volkswagen based in Michigan, as well as Chinese self-guiding companies Momenta, Weride and Baidu. Last month, Uber invested hundreds of millions of dollars in EV Maker Lucid and autonomous NURO start -up technology in an effort to launch its own Premium Robotaxi service.

Lyft did not have the same pace of agreements as Uber, but has made some partnerships in the past year, including a plan to add autonomous buses by Austrian manufacturer Benteler Group to its network in late 2026.