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 One is now handling over 250,000 trips per week across multiple 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 May 15, 2025.
Waymo Key Statistics
Waymo has done over 33 million autonomous miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin.
Waymo vehicles are currently in testing on highways, but they don't transport the public yet.
They started picking up and dropping off from their first and only airport (Phoenix Sky Harbor AZ) at the end of 2022. They are currently mapping SFO (link, no paywall).
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 company 1:
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 others 2.
Weekly Trips
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 in 4 markets.
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.
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.
Atlanta, Georgia: Coming soon! To join the waitlist, just scroll down to the 'Ride Preferences' section in your Uber app, tap on 'Autonomous vehicles,' and hit 'Join interest list'.
Service Areas
Waymo currently has a cumulative operating area of 588 square miles, across six coverage areas.
315 square miles in Phoenix.
55 square miles in San Francisco.
89 square miles in Los Angeles.
37 square miles in Austin.
27 square miles in Silicon Valley.
65 square miles in Atlanta.
You can view maps of all the active service areas here.
Future/announced markets
Atlanta
On April 15 2025, Waymo opened up their interest list in Atlanta through the Uber app (here’s how to join). When they launch, users who joined the interest list can call for an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric, and they may get matched with a Waymo if one is available. If there are no Waymos available, users will be matched with a human Uber driver.
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’ll handle fleet operations, facilities, and charging infrastructure, same as in Phoenix. It’s also not clear if they’ll be launching solo or in partnership with Uber.
Washington DC
On March 25 2025, Waymo announced their service will be available for riders in Washington, D.C in 2026 through the Waymo One app. The announcement came just a couple months after they resumed testing in the capital back in January.
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. They also highlighted they do not have plans to serve riders in Tokyo at this time.
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) compared to Uber’s global market share (233 million trips per week).
San Francisco
Yipit has released some limited data on Waymo’s market share in SF and Austin. In San Francisco, 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, didn’t count in this analysis.
The report was also strongly denied by Lyft’s CEO David Risher in their Q4 2024 earnings call and the CEO maintained that Waymo is growing the overall market share.
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 of 37 square miles - 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.
Our Analysis
Here’s a detailed analysis of this data set that we performed and our estimated market share numbers.
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.
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 Hyundai IONIQ 5s and Zeekr RTs expected to join soon.
Waymo has been relatively quiet about their fleet size but here’s what we know:
In May of 2025, Waymo finally disclosed that their fleet consists of over 1,500 vehicles and would ramp up to 3,500 vehicles in 2026.
Based on a December 2024 CPUC data dump, we know they have 730 vehicles in California alone, with around 300 of these vehicles in San Francisco (link, no paywall) according to a Waymo spokesperson.
Uber’s Q1 2025 earnings call also revealed Waymo’s Austin fleet to consist of 100 vehicles at the time, with the potential to go up to hundreds.
We also know they took 25 cars to Tokyo for testing (link, no paywall) but it’s not clear whether these cars are included in the overall 1,500 topline number3.
Safety
Waymo vehicles saw 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer injury claims compared to the average human driver, According to a Swiss Re study (link, no paywall). 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.
Waymo One launch date (link). Waymo Co-CEOs: Dmitri Dolgov and Tekedra Mawakana.
A Waymo spokesperson told me privately that their LA fleet is actually around 300 vehicles. But that would still leave a couple hundred 'vehicles missing' in California, which may be due to maintenance, repairs or other causes. We are unsure about the discrepancy but will continue to investigate/track.
Great data 👍 thanks!
This is great and cleanly put together, thanks! I had been thinking of making this to understand how Waymo is doing everywhere.