Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads
THE SO WHAT
A non-binding plan for 25,000 driverless Lucids in Europe runs straight into the EU’s current cap of 1,500 fully automated cars per type per year — regulation, not hardware, is the bottleneck. If you’re building AV services, your real roadmap constraint is type approval and city-by-city policy, not fleet procurement.
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