Waymo has increased its Texas robotaxi fleet by 49% in the past three weeks, according to state vehicle registrations and data from the Texas Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Tracker. As of 24 September, the company had 1,102 autonomous vehicles registered in the state.
The growth was driven by an influx of new Ojai minivans, which now make up about a third of Waymo's Texas fleet. The Ojai is a modified Zeekr RT equipped with Waymo's sixth-generation self-driving system and Google's Gemini AI as an in-car assistant. The base vehicles are built by Zeekr, a brand owned by China's Geely Holding Group, and shipped to the US without Chinese connected-car technology before being outfitted at Waymo's Arizona factory.
Waymo's Texas fleet had remained relatively static for most of the summer, rising from about 600 vehicles in June to more than 700 by the end of August. The company first launched commercial service in Austin through a partnership with Uber in March 2025 and has since expanded to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
Nationwide, Waymo now offers robotaxi service in 15 US cities and averages 500,000 paid rides per week. About 80% of its roughly 4,000 robotaxis are in California and Texas, with the remaining 800 or so spread across other states including Arizona and Florida.
The Ojai is intended to help Waymo reach mass scale and ultimately profitability, though steep US import tariffs on vehicles built in China are raising costs for each unit brought into the country. New York-based research firm MoffettNathanson, which tracks Ojai imports using shipping records, said in its September report that Waymo is on track to bring 5,100 of the vehicles into the US by the end of the year.