- Vay is expanding its electric vehicle fleet in Las Vegas to more than 100 cars.
- Unlike a rideshare, Vay remotely drives you a car that you then take over and remotely picks up when you’re done.
- Since its launch in 2024, more than 6,000 trips have been made.
While the automotive focus at CES 2025 is on fully autonomous vehicles, there is also some momentum with remotely driven vehicles. Case in point: Vay, which operates a fleet of these in Las Vegas, Nevada, is announcing a considerable expansion.
With Vay, you can order a car that will be yours to drive, but you won’t need to go to a rental car dealership to pick one up. Instead, within the app, just like Uber, Lyft, or Revel, you will call the car and it will be remotely driven to the requested location. Then you get in, take control, use the car and then return it within the zone.
In fact, I was able to try this experience on the first day of CES and will share my thoughts soon. For now, know that it’s cool and disruptive, offering a typical ridesharing experience but with a lot more control.
While Vay has been available in Las Vegas for a while, it announces that it will expand its fleet to 100 vehicles by the end of 2025. They will all be electric cars, with the most popular model being the Kia e-Niro. Since Vay debuted in 2024, users have taken more than 6,000 rides.
To support the expansion, which will ultimately make it easier to get a car with Vay in the city and reduce wait times, the company is opening a new production facility in Las Vegas to help bring these vehicles to the road. road faster. These aren’t fully autonomous vehicles, it’s primarily a camera-based experience, and Vay employees who operate the cars remotely essentially use a live feed to drive them on custom platforms. Vay will also hire more staff to meet demand.
The hope is that once the facility is up and running, they can deploy up to 16 cars per week and put them on the road. Vay already has a maintenance facility in Las Vegas to ensure electric vehicles are always charged and running smoothly.
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While Vay is more like a rental car delivery operation than a ride-sharing service, its growing popularity is undoubtedly due to cost and the overall experience. It can be cheaper than Uber or Lyft, and while it requires more work on your part and the coverage map of where you can get the car or drop it off is more limited, it puts you in complete control.
