Twenty-five thousand, still unapproved

The stamp at the top of this IT Home page is 2026/10/23 15:32:51. It retells a motor1 report from the same day: at GTC Berlin, Nvidia laid out its autonomous-driving plans in Europe. Bolt, Lucid, Mercedes, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Volvo, and Einride all plan to use the Hyperion computing platform for robotaxis, vans, and freight trucks. Planning to use it is not a delivered fleet. The page then says none of these projects is in full commercial operation on public roads. They are still in research, testing, or preparation for deployment, and most still need regulatory approval.

On this page, Hyperion is a shared computer and sensor architecture. It can run Nvidia's Alpamayo Stack or software a carmaker develops itself. Bolt plans to put Alpamayo Stack first on future Lucid models that use Hyperion, and to adjust the software for European roads. The count is the next sentence: Bolt plans to deploy at least 25,000 Lucid cars with L4 autonomous capability in Europe. If regulators approve, the first phase starts data collection in Madrid in 2027. Only after that Madrid phase is validated does Germany become the next focus. The 25,000 is a deployment plan. Madrid in 2027 is data collection. Both still depend on approval and validation.

The other companies are not the same fleet. Mercedes is extending Hyperion and Alpamayo research to L3 and L4 systems. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles showed an ID. Buzz AD platform built on Hyperion. Volvo will also use both technologies and hopes future models can handle complex routes and drive from a starting point to a destination. Hope is not an opened route. For freight, Einride will build the Einride Driver software the page calls new, for autonomous trucks, and the page says that work will combine Halos, Alpamayo, and Cosmos for training and validation. This story records those names. It does not write the training or validation steps.

On this page Huang calls robotaxis the first mass-market application of robotics and physical artificial intelligence. That is his wording, not an operating mileage. The page also says Halos SAFE covers technologies from L2 active safety to L4 robotaxi service. dSPACE, IVEX, and TÜV Rheinland worked on the evaluation process. Volvo, Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover, AVL, and Synopsys are also named as participants. The range and the list are product facts. How a developer would feed laboratory data into the framework is not written here. Other autonomous-driving items at the bottom are other stories. The Astana test on another page is not these 25,000 cars.