Hyundai Motor and Waymo have agreed to a multiyear, strategic partnership that features the self-driving firm including the South Korean automaker’s Ioniq 5 electrical automobile to its robotaxi fleet.

The businesses stated Friday that Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous know-how, generally known as the Waymo Driver, will likely be built-in in a “important quantity over a number of years to help” the Alphabet-backed firm’s rising robotaxi enterprise.

It comes practically two months after Waymo revealed details about its latest “technology 6” self-driving know-how, which will likely be built-in into Geely Zeekr electrical autos and will be capable of deal with a wider array of climate situations with out requiring as many expensive cameras and sensors on board.

Waymo, which boasts round 700 autos in its fleet immediately, operates the one industrial robotaxi service within the U.S., Waymo One. It supplies greater than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides per week within the U.S. immediately.

The Ioniq 5 EVs will likely be produced at Hyundai’s upcoming “Metaplant America” in Georgia after which geared up with Waymo’s self-driving applied sciences. The EVs will likely be delivered to Waymo with particular autonomous-ready modifications like redundant {hardware} and energy doorways.

Preliminary on-road testing with Waymo-enabled Ioniq 5s will start by late 2025. They’re anticipated to grow to be obtainable to Waymo One robotaxi riders within the years to comply with, the businesses stated.

The businesses declined to reveal monetary phrases of the partnership, however confirmed Waymo will buy and personal the autos.

Waymo has beforehand partnered with different auto manufacturers equivalent to Chrysler and Jaguar to provide and combine its applied sciences into autos.

The Waymo-Ioniq 5 integration is the primary stage of a partnership that would develop sooner or later, in response to José Muñoz, Hyundai chief working officer and CEO of Hyundai Motor North America.

“The staff at our new manufacturing facility is able to allocate a major variety of autos for the Waymo One fleet because it continues to increase,” Muñoz stated in a press release. “Importantly, this is step one within the partnership between the 2 corporations and we’re actively exploring further alternatives for collaboration.”

The Ioniq 5 is already being utilized by autonomous automobile startup Motional, a three way partnership between Hyundai and auto provider Aptiv. Hyundai stated the Waymo partnership “would not affect” Motional.

— CNBC’s Jennifer Elias contributed to this report.