Where these cars are built, and what they came with

Waymo

988

all imported — Austria, China

Tesla

432

all US-built

Avride

344

3% imported — South Korea

Aurora

91

32% imported — Mexico

Nuro

47

45% imported — Japan

Zoox

44

all US-built

May Mobility

22

all US-built

Waymo operates the largest robotaxi fleet on the Texas registry and did not assemble a single one of its 988 cars in the United States: 767 come from Graz, Austria, and the rest from Ningbo City, China. Tesla, Zoox and May Mobility build entirely in the US. Nothing about that is a safety finding on its own. It is a supply-chain and tariff exposure that follows directly from which car an operator chose, and it is not disclosed anywhere else.

The catalogue states plainly that a blank means it holds no data on that variable, not that the feature is absent — and this fleet contains the proof. The Jaguar I-PACE appears in two model years and is described almost completely in one and almost not at all in the other: 2021 lists 1 variable across 91 cars, and 2024 lists 21 variables across 676 cars — counted across every equipment variable the catalogue carries, which is more than the 19 the grid has room to draw. It is the same vehicle from the same plant. So an empty row means the catalogue was never populated for that car, which for a vehicle nobody can buy is exactly what you would expect.

What survives the caveat is still worth stating. Every one of the 1,606 vehicles the catalogue describes is a production car a member of the public could buy, and every purpose-built robotaxi in the fleet — 271 of them — is described by nothing at all. The public record of what a vehicle is thins out precisely where the vehicle is most novel, and that is a disclosure finding rather than a safety one.

Every vehicle sold for US roads carries a 17-character VIN that encodes the manufacturer, the plant, the model year and a description of how the car was built. The federal catalogue turns that into a few hundred named fields. It is authoritative about what left the factory and says nothing whatsoever about what has happened since.

So this page describes the car underneath the robotaxi, not the robotaxi. An operator strips and rebuilds these vehicles: sensors, compute, redundant steering and braking, and in several cases the removal of controls entirely. None of that is in a VIN. Read the equipment grid as the floor the operator started from.

Assembly country is where the vehicle was put together, which is not the same as where its parts were made or where its manufacturer is headquartered. A car assembled in Austria for a British marque owned by an Indian company is a normal thing, and the useful reading of the import column is exposure to tariffs and shipping, not nationality.

Three vehicles in the fleet returned a decode error and are counted but not fully described. For the recall history attached to these same base vehicles see platform recalls; for the fleet counts and model years behind these decodes, the fleet census.