Jaguar Land Rover invests $25 million in Lyft for autonomous vehicle testing

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Through its mobility services subsidiary InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover has invested $25 million in Lyft, which will result in InMotion developing and testing mobility services, including autonomous vehicles, with the ride-hailing service.

As a part of the investment, Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will also be provided to some Lyft drivers.

“Personal mobility and smart transportation is evolving,” says Sebastian Peck, InMotion managing director, via CNBC. “This new collaborative venture will provide a real-world platform helping us develop our connected and autonomous services.”

John Zimmer, Lyft president and co-founder, adds, “we're excited to join forces with Jaguar Land Rover and InMotion. Lyft envisions a future where shared mobility will transform cities and improve people's lives.”

Over the past few weeks and months, Lyft has been partnering with several companies to work on autonomous technology. Lyft and nuTonomy recently announced a research and development partnership that will see the two companies test self-driving vehicles in Boston in the “coming months.”

In May, Lyft partnered with Waymo, the self-driving car unit operating under Google, to work on self-driving vehicles.

According to an article from Tech Crunch, through a massive funding round, Lyft recently raised $600 million, with $25 million of that coming from Jaguar Land Rover, through InMotion.