Apollo Go Reaches 20 Million Trips, 190 Million Fully Driverless Kilometers

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We typically report on Waymo and other US-based robotaxi companies, but one of the biggest robotaxi services in the world is Baidu’s Apollo Go. It first launched fully driverless robotaxis in China on July 20, 2022, and was the first company to launch them there.

Now we have news that, as of this month, Apollo Go has provided 20 million rides — worldwide, as it does also offer robotaxi services in some locations outside of China. Note that Waymo passed 20 million passenger trips in December 2025.

The company provided 3.4 million robotaxi trips in just the 4th quarter of last year. That was a 200% increase over the 4th quarter of 2024. In its peak week, the company provided 300,000 such trips.

As has been done at all robotaxi companies, Apollo Go initially had humans in the vehicles supervising the autonomous driving. With those trips included, the company has now passed 300 million kilometers (186 million miles) of autonomous driving. Only counting the fully driverless trips, it has passed 190 million kilometers (118 million miles). That’s a lot of autonomous driving….

Along with providing these stats to the world, Baidu just announced that Apollo Go service has launched in South Korea. That should be a hot market for the service.

While most of Apollo Go’s business is conducted in Chain, the company has been expanding beyond China significantly. Uber & Lyft are supposed to be testing Apollo Go robotaxis in London this year, A public transport company in Switzerland is also starting to use them. Apollo Go should be entering other parts of Europe through Lyft this year as well. It is also getting into more markets in Asia and the Middle East through Uber. A little more than a year ago, Apollo Go robotaxis launched in Hong Kong. I expect we’ll be hearing of its entry into several more markets through 2026. Stay tuned.

And, one has to wonder: will Apollo Go be able to pass up Waymo in robotaxi rides? Both of them are expanding rapidly, so it should be an interesting and tight race for robotaxi leadership in 2026. We shall see.