Stellantis and Wayve have entered a strategic technology partnership that will see Stellantis integrate the Wayve AI Driver, Wayve’s automated driving intelligence, into the STLA AutoDrive platform, enabling hands-free, supervised Level 2++ driving in both urban and highway environments.
The collaboration marks a significant step forward in Stellantis’s strategy to deliver intuitive, safe and natural advanced driver‑assistance systems to customers, while building a flexible foundation that can evolve toward more advanced levels of automation over time.
The agreement builds on Stellantis’s recent strategic investment in Wayve and marks the next phase of collaboration between the companies, combining Wayve’s end‑to‑end AI driving intelligence with Stellantis’s advanced STLA AutoDrive platform, engineering expertise and manufacturing scale.
The initial focus of the partnership is hands-free, door-to-door supervised automated driving (Level 2++), supporting both highway and urban driving scenarios. STLA AutoDrive platform is designed to support the evolution toward more advanced automated driving features, in line with regulatory readiness and customer expectations.
The first vehicle integration is planned in North America in 2028.
“At Stellantis, we focus on technology that fundamentally transforms how our customers interact with their vehicles,” said Ned Curic, chief engineering and technology officer at Stellantis. “Combining our STLA AutoDrive platform with Wayve’s groundbreaking AI-first approach creates a genuinely intuitive and enjoyable hands-free driving experience. This collaboration is a testament to how the right partnerships allow us to scale advanced technology globally while anchoring customer safety and experience at the center.”
“This agreement marks an important next step for Wayve and Stellantis in scaling our technology together,” added Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve. “Our teams have already demonstrated how quickly the Wayve AI Driver can be integrated across Stellantis’s vehicle platforms, bringing up a prototype in less than two months. By combining Wayve’s AI with Stellantis’s engineering expertise, scale and global reach, we’re accelerating our mission to bring autonomy to any vehicle, anywhere.”
STLA AutoDrive provides a scalable platform for deploying advanced driver assistance systems across Stellantis brands. Combined with Wayve’s AI-driven approach, the system is designed to adapt across different regions and vehicle types, supporting broader deployment over time. This aims to enable faster rollout, ongoing improvement through real-world data, and wider access to advanced driving assistance features.
Wayve’s AI, integrated into the STLA AutoDrive platform, is designed to enable more human-like driving behavior that improves over time through real-world learning. The system aims to support safer, more natural and more intuitive driving assistance aligned with everyday driving conditions. Early development on Stellantis vehicles has already started.
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