Waymo Stats 2025: Funding, Growth, Coverage, Fleet Size & More

A look at the key stats and milestones from Waymo, Google’s former self-driving project and now an autonomous vehicle subsidiary under Alphabet

Waymo has been leading the autonomous vehicle revolution for almost two decades now. What started as Google’s self-driving car project in 2009 has now become one of the biggest autonomous ride-hailing services around, just less than 10 years after becoming a separate company.

Since launching its commercial service in Phoenix in 2018, Waymo is now handling over 250,000 trips per week across 5 major cities. With a fleet of self-driving Jaguar I-PACEs, it’s one of the largest AV services on the road today.

We’ve gathered some key statistics on Waymo’s fleet, trip volume, funding, market share and city breakdowns, and we’ll keep it updated regularly. Check it out below!

This article was last updated on October 1, 2025.

Waymo Key Statistics

• Waymo says it has recorded more than 10 million paid rides.

• Waymo has done over 100 million autonomous miles on public roads.

• Waymo vehicles are currently in testing on highways, but they don’t transport the public yet (only staff).

• They started picking up and dropping off from their first airport (Phoenix Sky Harbor) at the end of 2022. They also received a permit to operate at San José Mineta International Airport (SJC), and will begin rides there when they launch in San José. They are currently mapping SFO (link, no paywall) and have approval to operate.

• As of June 2025, Waymo’s staff had grown to 2,500 employees (link).

• Waymo is currently valued at over $45B after its most recent $5.6B funding round in October 2024, led by Alphabet.

Waymo Overview

A few quick facts about the company¹:

Key Executives

• Dmitri Dolgov - Co-CEO, @dmitri_dolgov

• Tekedra Mawakana - Co-CEO, @TechTekedra

• Saswat Panigrahi - Chief Product Officer, @saswat101

• Elisa de Martel - Chief Financial Officer, @elisademartel

• Mauricio E. Peña - Chief Safety Officer

Waymo Funding

Waymo has not followed the traditional startup fundraising path with clearly delineated Series A, B, or C rounds, especially in its early years as it was an internal Google project (now under Alphabet). However, here is a breakdown of its known fundraising history since it began raising external capital:

In total, Waymo secured $11.1 billion in funding from 2020 to 2024, with notable investors including Alphabet, Fidelity, Perry Creek Capital, and T. Rowe Price, among others².

Weekly Trips (All Cities)

• May 4, 2023 – Waymo hit 10,000 weekly rides.

• May 9, 2024 – Reached 50,000 weekly rides (Just over a year later).

• August 20, 2024 – Doubled to 100,000 weekly rides (just 3 months later).

• October 29, 2024 – Reached 150,000 weekly rides.

• November 29, 2024 – Hit 175,000 weekly rides (only a month later).

• February 27, 2025 – Surpassed 200,000 weekly rides.

• April 24, 2025 – Crossed 250,000 weekly rides across its 4 major markets.

Extrapolated Weekly Trips (All Cities)

Waymo hasn’t released updated numbers on weekly trip growth since April 2025 but we can look at historical and recent monthly growth data to extrapolate their current numbers. Waymo’s overall (May 2023 → Apr 2025) compounded growth rate is ~14.6% per month. Their most recent period of released data (Feb 27, 2025 → Apr 24, 2025) had a monthly compounded growth rate of 12.9%, so conservatively extrapolating that number (12.9%), we conclude that Waymo is now doing almost 360,000 trips per week³.

California Trip Data

The California state regulator for ridehail and robotaxis is the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). As part of their reporting requirements, Waymo is required to submit quarterly reports detailing various operational metrics, including monthly/weekly paid trips, cancelled trips, etc.

The latest release of CPUC data was from August, 2025 (with data through June 2025). Waymo’s growth peaked during May as expected, but took a big drop in June when Waymo had to pause services in both Los Angeles and San Francisco due to vandalism during ICE protests.

Waymo stopped reporting market share by city at the end of 2024, but we extrapolated Los Angeles’ growth rate to come up with the current number of weekly trips in both cities as of the end of March⁴.

Where can I get a Waymo?

Waymo is currently offering paid driverless rides in 5 major cities:

• Phoenix, Arizona: Waymo’s first public launch happened here in October 2020. Riders can book trips directly through the Waymo app, or through the Uber app by requesting an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric ride and choosing a Waymo vehicle option. Getting matched to a Waymo through the Uber app is subject to availability. African fintech Moove runs its fleet operations, facilities and charging infrastructure here — and plans to do the same in Miami soon.

• San Francisco, California: They opened to the public on June 25, 2024. Rides are available exclusively through the Waymo app.

• Los Angeles, California: Waymo launched in LA on November 12, 2024. Rides are available exclusively through the Waymo app.

• Austin, Texas: Public rides began on March 4, 2025, but only through the Uber app. When you request an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric ride, you might get the opportunity to accept a Waymo ride on the confirmation screen, depending on availability.

  • According to Uber’s CEO, Avomo (formerly Moove Cars) runs fleet management for Uber in Austin - not to be mistaken with Moove.io.

• Atlanta, Georgia: Public rides began here on June 24, 2025. Riders can only hail a Waymo through the Uber App. And like in Austin, there are no guarantees you’ll get a robotaxi every time. Riders need to opt in to the ‘Waymo on Uber’ option and then request an UberX, Uber Comfort, or Comfort Electric — and if a Waymo is available, you’ll get the option to accept the ride. Same as in Austin, Avomo (formerly Moove Cars) runs fleet management for Uber here - not to be mistaken with Moove.io.

Also available to ‘select Waymo One riders’ in:

• Silicon Valley, California: Waymo started offering rides in parts of Silicon Valley on March 11, 2025. Right now, it’s only available to ‘select Waymo One riders’ in the service area.

Service Areas

Waymo currently has a cumulative operating area of 720+ square miles⁵, across five major coverage areas.

• 315 square miles in Phoenix.

• Full coverage of San Francisco.

• 120+ square miles in Los Angeles.

• 90 square miles in Austin.

• 65 square miles in Atlanta.

• Silicon Valley (only available to ‘select Waymo One riders’)

You can view maps of all the active service areas here — except for Austin and Atlanta.

Future/announced markets

Nashville

On September 17, 2025, Waymo announced a partnership with Lyft to bring robotaxis to Nashville in 2026 (link). As part of this deal, Lyft will be Waymo’s fleet partner through their Flexdrive subsidiary and riders will be able to book rides through either the Lyft or Waymo app.

Denver

On September 2, 2025, Waymo announced the start of testing in Denver, their coldest city to date. There were no partners in this announcement, and they plan to launch service here in 2026.

Seattle

On September 2, 2025 (same day as Denver announcement), Waymo also announced the start of testing in Seattle. Just like Denver, they didn’t announce any partners here, and didn’t specify a future launch date for service.

Dallas

On July 28, 2025, Waymo announced a partnership with Avis Budget Group to bring its robotaxi service to Dallas in 2026 (link, no paywall). As part of the deal, Avis will act as a fleet partner, handling end-to-end operations — from infrastructure and vehicle readiness to maintenance and depot management. Once the service launches, riders will be able to book trips directly through the Waymo app.

Miami

Waymo announced in 2024 that they’d start reacquainting their fleet with Miami’s streets in early 2025, in preparation for a 2026 launch. They’ll be doing this in partnership with Moove, who will handle fleet operations, facilities, and charging infrastructure (Moove has the same responsibilities in Phoenix too). Waymo hasn’t specifically said that rides will only be available on the Waymo app but that would be the assumption.

Washington DC

On March 25 2025, Waymo announced their service will be available for riders in Washington, D.C in 2026 through the Waymo app. The announcement came just a couple months after they resumed testing in the capital back in January.

Road Trips

Road trips are different from ‘future/announced markets’ and according to Waymo, the purpose of a road trip is to drive in “regions where the driving culture and conditions differ from the areas we regularly operate.” So it does not necessarily mean they will launch in these markets any time soon.

Houston, Orlando and San Antonio

On May 27, 2025, they announced road trips to three new cities — Houston, Orlando and San Antonio.

New York and Philadelphia

In their latest update on July 7, 2025, Waymo announced that their road trips have kicked off in New York and Philadelphia, with vehicles now driving around in both cities (link).

Tokyo

On April 10 2025, Waymo announced they’d begin data collection in Tokyo with driver-operated test rides (link). The goal of this is to map the city and better understand the local roads, infrastructure, and driving habits. This road trip stood out because it marked the first ever introduction of the Waymo driver to international roads. They also highlighted they do not have plans to serve riders in Tokyo at this time.

Weather

Waymo’s deployments/announcements have been a mix of cities with relatively good weather and a few others like New York, Miami and Atlanta with relatively high rainfall. September 2025 marked the announcement of their first true cold weather market, Denver (average seasonal snowfall of 56”), where they plan to launch in 2026⁶.

Market Share

Waymo is growing rapidly as evidenced by their trip growth above, but they are still a small fraction (250,000 trips per week) of Uber’s global market share (250 million trips per week).

San Francisco

Yipit has released periodic data on Waymo’s market share in both SF and Austin. In December of 2024, Yipit reported that Waymo’s market share was equal to Lyft’s in SF (link) but the caveat was that it was only for trips that started and ended in Waymo’s operating domain. So trips like those to the airport, which is outside of Waymo’s operating area, did not count in this analysis.

The initial report was also strongly denied by Lyft’s CEO David Risher in their Q4 2024 earnings call and the CEO maintained that their market share in SF is relatively flat due to the fact that Waymo is actually growing the overall market share.

In June 2025, Yipit released updated data indicating that Waymo had overtaken Lyft’s market share in the city (link). However, the same caveat around Waymo’s operating area remains.

Austin

Yipit also released data on Waymo a few months into the ‘Waymo on Uber’ launch in Austin and the company claimed that Waymo was doing close to ~20% of Uber rides within its operating zone (link). Again, the big caveat with this data set is that it only counted rides that started in Waymo’s operating area (37 square miles at the time, it’s now up to 90) - leaving out major hot spots like the Austin Airport. At the metro level, Yipit found that Waymo made up just 6% of all Uber rides.

It’s also important to note that in Austin, Yipit shared the percentage of Waymo rides as divided by total Uber rides. Whereas in SF, they provided Waymo’s market share divided by the total rideshare market (including both Uber and Lyft rides).

Here’s a detailed analysis of this data set that we performed for Austin.

All Markets - Our Market Share Analysis

Using proprietary analysis and our own assumptions, we came up with the following rides/day and market share figures.

Methodology

Using publicly available ridehail data for both Uber and Lyft in the cities of Chicago and New York City, we extrapolated the total ridehail market using population data for each city.

We then used Waymo’s trip level data from the CPUC in California and Waymo’s latest publicly released total weekly trip number (250,000) to estimate rides per day in their top 4 markets and calculate market share.

Vehicles/Fleet Size

Waymo’s current commercial fleet is made up of Jaguar I-PACEs with Zeekr RTs expected to join soon. Hyundai IONIQ 5s are also slated to join the fleet in the future.

As at August 2025, they had 2,000 commercial vehicles in the U.S (link), with a bulk of them in California.

Waymo Vehicle Cost

Waymo’s current operating fleet is made up solely of Jaguar I-Paces, with an MSRP of $75,000. These vehicles are then retrofitted with a full suite of sensors — including LiDAR, radar, and cameras — giving them a 360° view of their surroundings. According to Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov, the hardware on their fifth-gen robotaxis adds up to $100,000 to the cost (link, no paywall), bringing each vehicle’s total to about $175,000. That’s a big step up from your average UberX vehicle, which is on average, a vehicle like an 8-year-old Prius worth closer to $30,000.

Waymo also plans to add Hyundai IONIQ 5s and Zeekr RTs to its fleet, both significantly cheaper than the Jaguars, and that should reduce the total cost of each vehicle. Zeekr RTs have already been spotted in multiple cities testing (SF, LA, Phoenix, and Denver).

Robotics expert

Chris Paxton

has estimated the cost of the Zeekr to be around $75,000.

Waymo Pricing

Obi, an app that compares real-time prices and pickup times across ride-hailing platforms, released what it describes as the first detailed analysis of Waymo’s pricing strategy (link). The study found that Waymo’s autonomous rides are about 30-40% more expensive than similar trips with Uber or Lyft — yet that higher cost doesn’t appear to be deterring riders.

Obi pulled nearly 90,000 ride offers in SF between March 25 and April 25 to compare pricing and ETAs across Waymo, UberX, and standard Lyft rides. Lyft came out cheapest with an average of $14.44, followed by Uber at $15.58. Waymo was the priciest, averaging $20.43 for the same routes and times.

During peak hours, Obi found that Waymo rides were, on average, around $11 more than Lyft and about $9.50 more than Uber.

I had Obi CEO, Ashwini Anburajan on the podcast to discuss this data, among other things (link).

Image Credit: Obi

Waymo Passenger Miles

On July 15, 2025, Waymo announced they had driven 100 million fully autonomous miles on public roads (link)⁷.

Safety

According to a Swiss Re study (link, no paywall), Waymo vehicles saw 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer injury claims compared to the average human driver. Over 25.3 million autonomous miles (no safety driver), the Waymo Driver racked up just nine property damage claims and two bodily injury claims (which are still under review in the report). For comparison, human drivers would typically face 78 property damage claims and 26 injury claims over the same distance.

1. Waymo One launch date (link). Waymo Co-CEOs: Dmitri Dolgov and Tekedra Mawakana.

2. Series A (link), Series A Extension (link), Series B (link), Series C (link).

3. I nulled out the growth in June due to Waymo’s reduced LA and SF operations because of protests/vandalism/etc. (also confirmed partially by CPUC data).

4. We didn’t feel that it was appropriate to continue extrapolating LA vs SF market share beyond 3 months, since the expectation is that LA will eventually reach an equilibrium point relative to SF.

5. We got the 720+ cumulative square miles coverage from sum of their full California coverage (250+ miles), and PHX, ATX, and ATL coverages.

6. Data on weather in Waymo Cities (link).

7. Waymo at 1 million autonomous miles (link). Data for Waymo at 22 million autonomous miles (link). Data for Waymo at 33 million autonomous miles (link). Data for Waymo at 50 million autonomous miles (link). Waymo at 71 million autonomous miles (link). Waymo at 100 million autonomous miles (link).