# Apollo RT6 at Wuhan — deployment

Canonical ID: `83760238-bea0-4248-a420-c6147e7ac8b4`

Operator: Baidu (Apollo Go runs its own service). Apollo Go's largest and flagship robotaxi deployment, operating 1,000+ vehicles in Wuhan — the largest robotaxi deployment in China. Fully-driverless commercial service (Wuhan and Chongqing received China's first fully-driverless commercial robotaxi permits in August 2022). Roughly 70% of Apollo Go's Wuhan operations run without a safety driver. Wuhan is where Apollo Go reached per-vehicle profitability — ridership offsets a local taxi fare ~30% cheaper than Beijing/Shanghai. The deployment has been progressively expanded in operating area, fleet size, and hours.

## Key facts

- **Fleet:** 1,000+ vehicles (largest in China)
- **Service type:** Fully-driverless commercial (~70% driverless)
- **Permit:** China's first fully-driverless commercial permit (Aug 2022)
- **Unit economics:** Reached per-vehicle profitability

## Incidents on record (1)

- [Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan stranded passengers in service-wide malfunction](/incidents/apollo-go-wuhan-service-malfunction-2026-03-31.md) — 2026-03-31 · Malfunction

_Direct incidents recorded against this deployment. Retracted incidents excluded from this view but reachable at their canonical URLs._

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-05-26_

- **Slug:** apollo-rt6-wuhan
- **Status:** active
- **Model:** [Apollo RT6](/models/apollo-rt6.md) — id `29ce99f0-cb31-489e-a802-d0beb09138ab`
- **Company:** [Baidu](/companies/baidu.md) — id `fdcac873-0717-44c1-af7b-90b2648fb567`
- **Location:** [Wuhan](/locations/wuhan.md) — id `ad012fe2-b521-4c4c-8f14-775f51b19b27`
- **First seen:** 2022-08-08T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. **1,000+ vehicles, largest China deployment, per-vehicle profitability, 70% driverless** · https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/global-robotaxi-race-heats-up-between-us-and-chinese-rivals.html · 2025-11-20
2. **Wuhan — China's first fully-driverless commercial robotaxi permit** · https://www.aol.com/news/baidu-bags-chinas-first-fully-022310539.html · 2022-08-08

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