The EV startup Lucid aims to beat Tesla on its own turf, with a new cost-cutting plan designed to focus more resources on its Robotaxi partnership with Uber, Nuro, and the Hertz affiliate Oro (cropped, courtesy of Lucid Group).
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Despite all the hype over the Tesla Robotaxi (aka the Cybercab), competition keeps coming out of the woodwork. Among the latest stakeholders to grab for a slice of the self driving fleet of the future is Lucid Group, the Saudi-US EV startup. Somewhat ironically, part of the plan includes a partnership that hooks Lucid up with an affiliate of Hertz, the same company that once inked an ambitious deal with Tesla only to get burned, bigly.
Here Comes The Lucid Robotaxi
CleanTechnica spotted Lucid’s robotaxi intentions back in July of 2025, when the company hooked up with Uber and the robotics specialist Nuro to introduce Lucid EVs with Level 4 self-driving capability in a US city sometime in 2026. Further plans were also in the works to introduce a fleet of 20,000 driverless Lucid taxis in major markets throughout the US.
