The companies plan to deploy their autonomous bZ4X vehicles to other right-hand drive markets like the UK.

Toyota/Waymo

In April 2025, Toyota and Waymo entered a preliminary agreement to work together on robotaxis. Now, the companies have announced that they will start testing an autonomous fleet of Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles in Japan sometime in 2027. After Japan, they're planning to deploy the vehicles to the UK and other right-hand drive markets in the years that follow.

The bZ4X is Toyota's first modern mass-market electric vehicle based on the e-TNGA platform it developed with Subaru. Toyota will be manufacturing the bZ4X units it's deploying and testing with Waymo at its Takaoka plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture.…