AMSTERDAM and LONDON – Stellantis and Wayve today announced they have entered a strategic technology partnership under which Stellantis plans to 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’ strategy to deliver intuitive, safe, and very 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’ 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’ 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. “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,” said Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO of Wayve. “Our teams have already demonstrated how quickly the Wayve AI Driver can be integrated across Stellantis’ vehicle platforms, bringing up a prototype in less than 2 months. By combining Wayve’s AI with Stellantis’ engineering expertise, scale, and global reach, we’re accelerating our mission to bring autonomy to any vehicle, anywhere.”
A Scalable AI Approach Across Stellantis’ Portfolio
STLA AutoDrive provides a common, scalable foundation for deploying advanced driving assistance across Stellantis’ portfolio of iconic brands. Complementing this foundation, Wayve’s end-to-end AI approach is designed to generalize across geographies and vehicle types, supporting deployment across multiple markets over time. This approach enables faster deployment, continuous improvement through real world data, and efficient scaling, helping bring advanced driving assistance to millions of customers.
Advancing Customer Centric Automated Driving Experience
Wayve’s AI technology, integrated into STLA AutoDrive platform, is designed to deliver human-like driving behaviour that can continuously improve through learning from real world experience. This technology supports safer, more natural and more intuitive driving assistance, aligned with how customers actually drive and move through their daily environments.
Early development on Stellantis vehicles has already started, demonstrating rapid integration and promising performance, reinforcing the flexibility of deploying AI driven solutions across Stellantis products lineup.
