Robotaxis are fully autonomous vehicles that can operate without human supervision in geofenced areas such as cities or residential communities. The self-driving vehicles capable of piloting through highway and traffic jams and fully driverless cars will appear massively no earlier than 2025. By this time, the global market will be worth around US$42 billion. The amount of sensor data a robotaxi needs to process is 100 times greater than today's most advanced vehicles. This article features the top ten best robotaxi makers making a breakthrough in 2022.

Electric robo-taxis are a real possibility. Trends in transportation, energy, and demographics indicate that future vehicles will operate autonomously, run on electricity rather than fossil fuels, and be shared instead of privately owned. But before everyone can carpool in self-driving electric cars, we need places to charge them. Today, that's a challenge: there are only about 20,000 charging stations for electric vehicles in the US. McKinsey predicts that major economies (China, Europe, India, and the US) will need to invest $55 billion in charging infrastructure by 2031 to support the 140 million electric vehicles that will be on the road then.