小马智行2026Q1业绩直播
Key Takeaways (AI-Generated)
Financial Performance:
- Pony AI reported a total revenue of $34.3 million for Q1 2026, marking an increase of 145% year-over-year.
- Robotaxi revenue saw a significant surge, with a growth of 395%, reaching $8.6 million. Notably, fare-charging revenues increased by 456%.
- The cost of revenue was $28.7 million, bringing the gross margin to 16.2%.
- Net loss stood at $53.5 million, up from $37.4 million in Q1 2025, with the net loss margin showing substantial improvement from negative 267% to negative 156%.
Business Progress:
- The company expanded operations into key high-demand areas within major cities domestically and initiated new services in international markets including Croatia, Qatar, Singapore, and South Korea.
- The deployment of the Gen-4 Robotruck is underway, with mass production set to begin in the second half of the year.
- Launched L4 autonomous light trucks, integrating autonomous driving technology into urban logistics.
- Autonomous domain controller shipments grew over 500%, pushing growth in the Intelligent solutions segment.
Opportunities:
- Established presence in 9 countries with services initiated in 4 markets, capitalizing on expanding regulatory supports and partnerships globally.
- Expanding operations to core downtown areas with higher economic values and leveraging pricing power to maintain robust demand.
Next Quarter Guidance:
- Pony AI raised its full-year targets given the unexpected rapid growth. The company now targets a fleet size of 3,500 vehicles, exceeding the initial target of 3,000, and aims for Robotaxi revenue to grow over 3.5x from previous targets.
- The company is on track to reduce Robotaxi BOM costs to below RMB 230,000 by mid-2027.
Risks:
- Given the complex regulatory environment globally, the company needs to navigate varied policies efficiently while expanding internationally.
Full Transcript (AI-Generated)
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Pony AI Inc., First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded, and a webcast replay will be available on the company's Investor Relations website at ir.pony.ai.
I'd now turn the call over to your host, George Shao, Head of Capital Markets and Investor Relations at Pony AI. Please go ahead, George.
George Shao
Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today for Pony AI's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. Earlier today, we issued a press release with our financial and operating results, which is available on our Investor Relations website. An earnings presentation, which we will refer to during the conference call can also be accessed and downloaded on our Investor Relations website. Joining me on the call are Dr. James Peng, Chairman of the Board and CEO; Dr. Tiancheng Lou, CTO; and Dr. Leo Wang, CFO of the company. They will provide prepared remarks followed by a Q&A session.
Before we begin, please refer to the safe harbor statement in our earnings release, which applies to this call as we'll be making forward-looking statements. Please also note that we will discuss non-GAAP measures today, which are more thoroughly explained and reconciled to the most comparable measures reported under GAAP in our earnings release available on the Investor Relations website and filings with the SEC and Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
I will now hand it over to our Chairman and CEO, Dr. James Peng. Please go ahead.
Jun Peng
Thank you, George. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our earnings call. We kicked off 2026 with a amazing first quarter. This strong start defines our growth momentum for the whole year.
Let me start with the highlights. I'm proud to report that in Q1 2026, our total revenue grew by 145% year-over-year, and we also achieved record high quarterly Robotaxi revenue. Specifically, our Robotaxi revenues grew nearly 400%, powered by a more than 450% surge in fare-charging revenues. Our operational momentum is accelerating across the board. We have scaled our Robotaxi fleet to exceed 1,700 vehicles and amplified this expansion through a massive surge in user adoption. Now our registered users grew more than 200% year-over-year in China. In fact, our weekly average paid orders so far in May grew more than 100% compared to the beginning of the year. Lastly, we continue to expand our operating area, currently broadening our service footprint into downtown Guangzhou. Globally, we have been advancing our operations in the capital of Croatia, realizing Europe's first commercial Robotaxi service.
Looking at our overall Q1 results, I'm thrilled that our strategic and execution moat translated directly into our exponential growth in Robotaxi and fare-charging revenues. By scaling our fleet, user base and paid order volume, we have achieved consistent month-over-month growth this year. This is a remarkable achievement as spring typically is a low season for ride-hailing.
Our dual engine strategy that is focusing on both China and global markets and the joint deployment model started unlocking new and diversified revenue streams. China market remains our primary growth engine, where we have secured a dominant lead. We are steadily ramping up our domestic fleet while simultaneously broadening our operational footprint. We expanded our operation in Guangzhou from Nanshan and Panyu District into Haizhu District, which is the heart of Guangzhou that covers high-demand areas like Canton Tower, the Pazhou CBD and the Canton Fair Complex. In Shenzhen, we have been continuously increasing the size and the density of our fleet in Nanshan and Bao'an district, the city's 2 business areas. For key transportation hubs, we are now providing comprehensive airport transfer services across Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
Our international expansion is also gaining traction. We have now established a presence in 9 countries and started services to the public in 4 overseas markets, including Croatia, Qatar, Singapore and South Korea. In the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, we realized the first Robotaxi commercialization in Europe. In the Middle East, our footprint in Dubai and Qatar continues to expand, currently initiating driverless deployment in Dubai. These achievements serve as proof that our model can be applied smoothly across multiple regulatory and operational environments, ultimately creating solid revenue streams.
As for the joint deployment model, we consistently make significant strides because of our technology leadership, our operational success and our commercial maturity, partners increasingly recognize us as their preferred collaborator. We have seen more partners from both domestic and international markets join forces with us, starting to contribute sizable revenue in Q1.
Our Robotaxi success is continuously driven by our innovation and execution, which helps us to achieve a large-scale fleet, excellent technology and operations and a superior user experience. Moving forward, we will focus on reinforcing these areas to expand market share and cement our industry leadership.
Operating a scaled fleet with consistent stability is a powerful testament to our technology and operational maturity. As we scale, we are supercharging our growth engine. We continue to build competitive barriers and trust from policymakers and fortify our brand position at the forefront of user mind share. Currently, we are accelerating the rollout of Gen-7 vehicles across Toyota, Beijing Auto and Guangzhou Auto, exceeding 1,700 Robotaxi vehicles.
At the Beijing Auto Show last month, we debuted our 2027 version of the Robotaxi for domestic market. This upgraded version will achieve further BOM cost optimization to less than RMB 230,000. This competitive pricing facilitates rapid scaling of the Robotaxi fleet for the years to follow.
Safety has always been the foundation of our company, which is ensured by our technological and operational advantages. Our industry-leading L4 technology, vehicle level intelligence and resilient fleet management help us to maintain uncompromised safety. This proven mastery of highly complex scenarios enable our Robotaxis to navigate peak rush hours, dense urban areas and bad weather conditions, satisfying surging user demand. We have moved beyond a novel experience into a go-to daily transportation choice. The results speak for themselves. Our Robotaxi fares maintain a premium over the entry-level ride-hailing services.
Despite this premium service pricing, demand remains exceptionally robust, particularly during peak hours. Notably, our weekly average paid orders so far in May increased by more than 100% compared to the beginning of the year, significantly outpacing industry-wide growth. Beyond that, we are continuously optimizing ground operations from charging efficiency to dispatching algorithms. This, in turn, boosts our fleet utilization and reduce operational costs.
Now let me move to our Robotruck business. Our Gen-4 Robotruck is slated for mass production in the second half of the year with preproduction vehicles currently rolling off the production line. I'm also pleased to share that in Q1, Robotruck revenues were up 31% year-over-year. This was driven by scaling up long-haul operations. We also strive to expand our addressable market across multiple fronts, particularly in intracity urban logistics. To this end, we launched our L4 autonomous light truck in April, leveraging our fully automotive grade and fully redundant Level 4 Robotaxi architecture.
In terms of Intelligent solutions, a business we recently renamed from licensing and applications to better reflect our expanding business in this segment. Q1, the ADC, essentially the autonomous domain controller shipments in this segment surged by over 500% year-over-year. This was mainly driven by domain controller deployments in low-speed delivery applications.
2026 is off to a strong start for Pony. We have achieved supercharged revenue growth in all 3 business lines without any compromise in safety. Since the first day of our founding, we have been committed to provide safe and reliable autonomous driving services. It is our deepest moat, and it's now the perfect stage for Pony to demonstrate what a decade of rigorous engineering looks like.
Our fourfold Robotaxi revenue growth is fueled by accelerated user adoption in domestic Tier 1 cities and revenue contributions from our joint deployment model, both domestically and globally. Reflecting this powerful commercial momentum, I am now raising our 2026 annual target that we forecasted earlier this year. First, upgraded fleet target. We are now on a clear path to surpass a fleet size of 3,500 vehicles, which is an upward revision from our initial 3,000 target. Second, accelerated revenue growth. We are now lifting our Robotaxi revenue target higher to more than 3.5x from our previous target of tripling. Third, scaling our domestic and overseas presence as we continue to accelerate the scaling up in our existing markets, we are firmly confident to expand our footprint to over 20 cities, both domestically and globally.
As an industry leader, our mission goes beyond our own growth. We are here to lead the development of autonomous driving that has sustainable societal benefits. By providing a safe driverless technology that is safe and profitable at scale, we are building the future of mobility that the world can trust.
With that, I will hand it over to our CTO, Tiancheng Lou, to go over the technology that's powering our leadership. Tiancheng, please go ahead.
Tiancheng Lou
Thank you, James. Hello, everyone. This is Tiancheng. Our strong start in 2026 fully proves our solid technology foundation. Looking at our scale, our Robotaxi fleet now surpasses 1,700 vehicles and the Q1 Robotaxi revenue skyrocketed by nearly 400% year-over-year, hitting an all-time high. Building on this robust growth momentum, we are raising our full year target to over 3,500 vehicles and revenue growth to 3.5x from the level of last year. This scaling up is driven by our proven capability to expand rapidly in high-value markets. We successfully entered downtown core of Guangzhou Haizhu District and launching Europe's its first commercial Robotaxi service, we demonstrated our true technology leadership. Only a tech leader can deploy fleet so quickly into this high-value ultra-complex urban areas. Because our technology navigate this environment safely, more users choose to call our Robotaxis and more partners want to collaborate with us. It is this demonstrated the capability that gives us the confidence to upsize our scale.
Another clear testament was our performance during a series of concerts held in Guangzhou early this month. This event attracts tens of thousand attendees around the stadium. I'm very proud that Pony's Robotaxi officially become a government recommended transportation choice for the peak post-concert crowd. We pulled this off because we can master this level of extreme localized demand seamlessly. Being integrated into official local traffic plan proves that the authorities highly trust our safety and operational capabilities.
So ultimately, mastering this dense high-traffic environment demands a leap in top-tier engineering by orders of magnitude. It comes down to 3 core technical pillars, an exceptional training program, robust operational redundancy as well as safe and efficient fleet management. Many years ago, we realized a critical truth. The public demands a much higher safety standard for L4 driverless robotaxis than for human drivers. This means when human drivers make mistakes, society accept as a normal part of daily life. But if an AI driver makes a mistake, the public trust will be negatively impacted. This understanding shifted our tech stack years ago. We knew we could not achieve true L4 by simply learning from human driving data.
More importantly, we knew we could not solve L4 through a simply scaling law like that of a large language model, meaning just increasing parameter size and data volume. Learning from human driving data and scaling up parameters can give you a decent L2 driving assistant, but that level of AI is only good enough for L2 assistance driving when a human acts as a backup. It can never work for large-scale L4 robotaxis because it cannot significantly beat human safety levels.
Driving is very different from AI coding. In coding, the AI does not need to make decisions with ultra-low latency and the first output does not need to be perfect. The AI can try, fail and fix errors multiple times using a agent framework, compilers and test environment. Humans expect to see a final result, accept multiple rounds of trial and error. But for AI driver, the model output must be instant and correct on the first trial. Therefore, we started using reinforcement learning and world model years ago. Today, this approach allows our Robotaxi to drive much safer than humans, especially in complex areas. This early bet give us a massive first-mover advantage, allowing us to rapidly deploy our Robotaxi in high-value markets globally.
However, for a true L4 vehicle, achieving safety just at the algorithmic level is not enough. If a system downgrade and cause an accident or simply stop dead on a high-speed road to wait for rescue, the public will not accept it. That is why every single Pony's Robotaxi features a full stack multilayer redundancy architecture for both software and hardware. This gives us good operational capability. If any component fails during a trip, the system stay fully functional. The car will continue to drive safely to the secure spot and pull over, avoiding traffic congestion and rear end crashes.
Furthermore, our car can drive normally even when there's no network or GPS signal, both of which can easily drop in urban environments. We also do not rely on high-definition map. For example, even when road layout or markings change significantly or even if we need to drive in the opposite, our system adapt and navigate safely based on real-time road detection.
We also detect any event instantly. Our cars equipped with impact sensors, so the system knows immediately if a collision occurs or stop the vehicle right away. We also detect hardware faults, software failures and network instability instantly to ensure driving safety. We even have specialized water-wading sensors to make sure our cars do not enter deep puddles that could cause damage.
As for operation expense, keeping the entire fleet safe become just as critical as a single Robotaxi safety. To achieve this, we scale our intelligence into citywide safety net, protecting our large-scale operations through 3 strong lines of defense. The first line is prevention. We have a dedicated safety team to systematically eliminate risk from the very beginning. We use technical design to solve safety issue before they happen, including risks from human errors or cyberattacks. For example, our remote assistant only provide high-level guidance, they do not control the car. The onboard module on the vehicle responsible for any collision or accident avoidance. This ensures our remote assistant cannot cause an accident through wrong input or network delay.
The second line detection. If demand is back and all vehicles end up heading in the same direction, our smart dispatching system ensure they don't arrive at the same intersection all at once, but rather arrive one after another. If a road is blocked or congested, our system will also detect it instantly and notify the whole fleet to avoid making the traffic worse.
The third line is response. We established dedicated ground support teams. If a vehicle encounter any issue on the road, our rescue personnel will arrive at the same within minute to handle the situation immediately. In short, our technology makes our operations safe and this large-scale operation builds our ultimate moat because we choose the right foundation from day 1, and we now have a unique capability and first-mover advantage to rapidly expand in high-value markets. By the end of this year, we target to expand our fleet to over 3,500 vehicles across more than 20 cities. This massive scale will allow us to unlock even greater commercial value while continuing to deliver the foremost trusted L4 Robotaxi service, both domestically and globally. This concludes my prepared remarks.
I will now pass the call to our CFO, Dr. Leo Wang. Leo, please go ahead.
Haojun Wang
Thank you, Tiancheng. Hello, everyone. This is Leo. I will focus on year-over-year comparisons for the first quarter of 2026, unless otherwise noted. For detailed financials, please refer to our earnings release. 2026 is the year where our commercialization strategy translates into remarkable financial performance. This quarter, total revenues reached a record of USD 34.3 million, representing a 145% increase from USD 14 million in the same quarter last year. The triple-digit top line growth was driven by Robotaxi revenue growth of 395% and the Intelligent solutions growth of 246%. We are also capturing compounding benefits as we extend our autonomous driving technology from Robotaxi into Robotruck and other partners along the value chain.
Diving deeper into Robotaxi, this segment continues to serve as our core growth engine. This quarter, we reached a record high Robotaxi revenue of USD 8.6 million, grew by nearly 400% compared with USD 1.7 million in the first quarter of 2025. As James mentioned, 3 key elements have helped Pony to achieve a leadership moat in Robotaxi operation. These are scaled fleet, excellent technology and operations as well as superior user experience. Pony's Robotaxi has become a popular service that has captured user mind share, and this is now reflected in our financial numbers. Specifically, our fare-charging revenues delivered an exceptional growth of 456%. This impressive increase was driven by several compounding factors.
We continue to add more vehicles and expanding into more regions, especially to core downtown areas with higher economic values. Operating metrics reflect our growing capacity and the strong user demand. For example, our weekly average paid orders so far in May grew more than 100% compared to January. Registered users increased more than 200% year-over-year, and our daily order growth rate continued to outpace the industry average. What makes this strong growth trajectory even more remarkable is our pricing power. Even after discount, our effective fare rate per kilometer remains above entry-level pricing on ride-hailing platforms and is on par with the standard express tier.
Our demand remains robust and is growing at a very fast speed. We believe this is a clear reflection of the superior ride experience and the robust technology we deliver, especially during peak hours and in traffic heavy downtown areas.
On the cost side, we continue to make good progress on both operating costs and the BOM costs front. Pony's combined depreciation and operating cost per vehicle are already among the most competitive globally. And this is achieved while operating in the busiest downtown area during the morning and the evening peak hours under most demanding traffic conditions. By leveraging operational efficiency, we continue to drive operating costs even lower and are also on track to bring Robotaxi BOM costs below RMB 230,000 by mid-2027 in the domestic market. Together, these 2 levers, declining operating costs and lowering BOM costs, will further enhance our Robotaxi margin as we scale the fleet.
Aside from fare-charging revenues, our joint deployment model has started to contribute meaningful revenues with both domestic and overseas partners. Such a model will enable more efficient use of capital in fleet deployment, specifically as a global technology enabler, we successfully launched the first commercial Robotaxi service in the city center of Zagreb, Croatia, together with our local partners, combined with our expanding operations in China. This is a strong testament to the execution of our dual engine strategy.
Turning to Robotruck. Robotruck services revenue grew 31% to USD 10.2 million this quarter, up from USD 7.8 million in the first quarter of 2025. This growth was driven by the addition of more trucks and the expansion of our diversified client base, reflecting increasing demand from downstream logistics clients in the long-haul business. We continue to see our industry-leading autonomous driving technology expanding into wider use cases. For example, long-haul trucking and intrastate logistics. Looking ahead, with the launch of Level 4 autonomous light trucks and the Gen-4 Robotruck, we are firmly on track to deliver even better autonomous driving trucks with lower cost, superior driving performance and wider use cases, expanding into a wider addressable market.
Our Intelligent solutions segment, formerly the licensing and application segment, delivered a remarkable growth of 246%, reaching USD 15.5 million in the first quarter of 2026, up from USD 4.5 million in the first quarter last year. This exceptional performance was mainly fueled by strong sales of autonomous domain controllers, such strong growth is yet another testament to the opportunities of our autonomous driving technology as we empower other customers along the value chain.
Moving to cost and margin. Total cost of revenue was USD 28.7 million, translating to a gross margin of 16.2%. Total operating expenses were USD 63.9 million, a modest increase of 9.5%. On a non-GAAP basis, operating expense were USD 59.3 million, representing a 20.2% increase. Such commitments, especially in R&D, have helped us to maintain our technology leadership and will effectively drive down our BOM cost. Loss from operations was USD 58.3 million, remaining relatively flat compared to USD 56 million in the first quarter last year.
Net loss was USD 53.5 million compared to USD 37.4 million in the first quarter last year. The increase was mainly attributable to the realization of investment income that occurred in Q1 2025, coupled with a modest increase in operating expenses. Excluding the impact from this investment realization, the underlying loss amount remained broadly stable. It's worth noting that the loss from operation margin narrowed drastically from negative 401% in the first quarter of 2025 to negative 170% this quarter. Similarly, our net loss margin narrowed from negative 267% to negative 156% year-over-year. The narrowing loss margin trend demonstrates our operating leverage driven by the rapid revenue growth and the gradual realization of commercial scale benefits.
Turning to our balance sheet. Cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, restricted cash and long-term debt instruments for wealth management stood at USD 1.4 billion as of March 31, 2026. This compares to USD 1.5 billion as of December 31, 2025. We continue to maintain an exceptionally robust financial position with ample dry powder to execute our strategy.
Net cash used in operating activities was USD 74.2 million this quarter compared to USD 54.2 million in the first quarter of 2025. The increase was primarily due to an increase in the accounts receivable resulting from substantial sales revenue increase of autonomous driving domain controller, along with the increase of non-GAAP loss from operations.
Capital expenditures were USD 12.5 million this quarter compared to USD 4.9 million in the first quarter last year. The increase was primarily due to Gen-7 vehicle production for the quarter and the procurement of vehicle components for future manufacture and investments in data center and servers.
We believe 2026 will prove to be a defining year for the industry, and we are confident in our ability to outperform the industry in operational and financial execution. With our solid Robotaxi operational excellence, continued strong cost optimization, increasing partner interest and a strong cash reserve, we are highly confident in accelerating our path towards sustainable profitable growth for our shareholders.
I will now turn the call over to the operator to begin our Q&A session. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] The first question today comes from Xiaoyi Lei with Jefferies.
Xiaoyi Lei
Congrats on the strong quarter. Just 1 from me. I'd like to ask about the regulatory environment. We've seen quite a bit of movement on the policy side for the Robotaxi sector, both in China and overseas. So I was hoping you could share your perspective on how this evolving regulatory landscape is shaping up? And more importantly, how you see it impacting Pony AI's business or your competitive positioning going forward?
Jun Peng
This is James, and I'll take this question. So as far as I know, most of the policy discussions, both domestically and globally are actually centered on the safety operation of Robotaxi. As you all know, safety is the cornerstone of the autonomous driving industry. Therefore, I would consider the safety discussion and the result of standardized safety or even higher safety measures are beneficial for the long-term stable development of the industry.
As Pony, we have had many years of experience of successfully operating a large fleet and have the experience working with regulators to have a healthy, more transparent environment. Especially in China, we have built a deep trust with regulatory authorities, and we consider that we will continue to work hand-in-hand with the regulators to safely bring autonomous driving to the public.
Back to the safety itself, as Tiancheng mentioned, we have established a full life cycle safety management for both autonomous driving vehicle itself and also the fleet operation. Every vehicle features a fully redundant architecture with fair operational capability. That is our vehicles actually will always safely pull over even during an extreme case of system failure.
Additionally, our fleet management has the capability to detect and respond to any unforeseen issues on the road. The whole system actually serves as a city-wide safety net to prevent traffic jams and handle real-time road changes. This is actually how we ensure safety at scale. This highly sophisticated and robust safety system and also the safety track record have given us confidence to scale our business quickly.
The current policy discussions and the policy updates do not have any direct impact on our business. In contrary, we are -- as you see during the prepared remarks, I have actually raised our business targets for the whole year of 2026. We are continuing to push forward with our Gen-7 deployment, and we are making smooth progress towards our target in fleet size, revenue and operational area expansion.
So as I mentioned, there's no immediate impact. And I believe that in the mid- to long term, actually, the current standardized regulatory environment will play directly to our advantage as we already established as the industry leader. It highlights once again that the complexity of operating Robotaxis at scale in dense urban environment, which is exactly we have proven our capability. I think ultimately, this high standard will consolidate the market, filter out the unqualified players and further raise the entry barrier for the new players. And as a result, it will help the long-term growth of the industry. With this, I'll hand over to the operator.
Operator
Next question comes from Ming-Hsun Lee with Bank of America.
Ming-Hsun Lee
Given you raised your Robotaxi fleet size to 3,500 by the end of the year and also you raised revenue. Could you elaborate more on the key drivers behind your upward revision for these 2 numbers?
Haojun Wang
Yes. Thank you, Ming, for asking this question. This is Leo. I'll take this one. So the upward revision is definitely showing that we are encouraged by our strong commercial momentum and especially the result of Q1. To be honest, this is actually moving faster than we expected, and it's reflecting many core areas in our Robotaxi business. For example, we are seeing our domestic operations are accelerating. We are seeing the pickup in revenue in paid order volume and also in the user bases in all Tier 1 cities in China. This is really a reflection that we are providing a qualified service nonstop in Shenzhen and in Guangzhou.
And we are attracting more and more repeated users because we can provide the service even during peak hours with consistency, even during complex scenarios, and that eventually translates into more revenues. And the other point is how we make the UE breakeven milestone in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. This also serves as a proven case for future possibility. And that's why we are seeing many of the potential partners, now they have the real interest domestically and internationally to really participate in our joint deployment business model.
This could be more efficient use of our capital, but also means we could deploy more vehicles in different markets. So given all these facts and encouragement, that's why we have the confidence to push our Robotaxi revenue growth target even higher to be 3.5x of 2025 and also our fleet size to be 3,500 vehicles by this year-end. And now I'll get back to the operator.
Operator
The next question comes from Wei Huang with Deutsche Bank.
Wei Huang
This is Wei Huang. So I have a question on Robotruck operations. You recently launched L4 electric at the Beijing Auto Show. Can you explain the strategic considerations for launching this platform? And can you comment on the expansion plans?
Jun Peng
Thanks, Wei. This is James, and I'll take this question. As you consider, the company vision since our founding has always been autonomous mobility everywhere. And to us, the word everywhere actually has 2 implications. One is expanding our presence across both domestic and overseas markets. And the other is scaling our technology across different vehicle platforms for both the passengers and the freight transportation. So the launch of our L4 autonomous light truck actually aligns perfectly with our vision and our ambition.
In the logistics sector, the value chain actually spans long-haul trucking, urban logistics and the last-mile delivery. We already established a Robotruck division that's working on the long-haul logistics. And for the last-mile delivery, we are not directly working on it, but we actually have already becoming the leading ADC provider. So the current -- the recent launch of Level 4 light truck is actually serves the purpose of completing one key segment in our full logistics portfolio.
The platform for the Level 4 light truck also shares a nearly identical software stack as our Robotaxi. It can also fully utilize our existing operational infrastructure such as remote assistance, the ground support networks and even the cleaning, charging facilities. This unified architecture creates a powerful synergy. It can actually further slash out our light truck operating cost by half compared with the human-driven light truck fleet.
Also, we can actually lower the operational overhead of our Robotaxi service because we can share a lot of the background support. In terms of the current status, we are developing the Level 4 light trucks, and it's already well underway. For example, we codeveloped this Level 4 electric light truck with CATL, and we are establishing a solid pipeline with some of the leading logistics companies for the future application of those trucks. In addition, we also started discussing with the regulators on the licensing front and also on the fleet management. So we expect the autonomous light truck to begin scaled operation early next year.
With this, I'll get back to the operator.
Operator
The next question comes from Ting Song with Goldman Sachs.
Ting Song
Congratulations on the results. My question is on the technology part. So regarding the VLA, Visual Language Action Model in autonomous driving, could you please share more on Pony strategy and your future expected technology path? Do you think the language part is still necessary as we recently noticed some supply chain players start to remove the language from their models?
Tiancheng Lou
This is Tiancheng. I will take this one. Let me start from saying that the core of driving is understanding of intention of other road users and response appropriately. By putting an intention layer into our onboard model training, we generate different intention combinations and we evaluate the possibility of all other traffic participants. This design ensure our onboard model always select the safest drop and have a plan ready for any event, even for low possibility cases. We believe language is not the essence of driving. Also language models take too much computer power for a car. Instead, we believe intention is the real cause for driving.
When human drive, they think about the intention of other cars, not natural language. Crucially, this intention data is hard to get from simple road testing. We must generate it by world model. We believe large language models or language layers do not help on the car's inference side, where the model and generative data essential for training. In fact, autonomous driving and large language models do very different tasks.
A large language model agent like a coding tool does not need to have very low latency. It does not need to be perfect on the first try. It works in a low-cost environment where it can try, fail and fix mistakes inside the testing box. But the driving has 0 room for mistakes. If you make a mistake, it is an accident. Therefore, our tolerance for AI hallucination is 0. To solve this, we build a virtual driving environment in onboard model. This allows the system to try and fail during the training stage, not on real road. During the real-world inference stage on the car, our model does not pick the single highest possibility path. Instead, it chooses to action that ensure safety under any probability. With this, back to the operator.
Operator
The next question comes from Jeff Chung with Citi.
Ming Chung
Congratulations with your record-breaking first quarter results. How should we think about the balance between sustaining this high growth trajectory and your increasing strategic investments, especially when you are revising the full year targets?
Haojun Wang
Thank you, Jeff. This is Leo. I'll take this question. Yes, we have a very good Q1 results, which proves that our Robotaxi commercialization strategy, dual engine strategy is translating into accelerated top line growth. And as you can see that our top line growth is actually outpacing our expenditure, which resulted in our operating loss margin narrowed quite a lot this quarter. Given all these momentum, we are confident to raise our full year business target so that we can achieve even higher growth trajectory, which I think is really important for any growth company.
In the meanwhile, we need to make strategic increased investments in certain areas, hence to keep our advantages in the industry. Using an example is we are actually on track to decrease our total BOM cost to be less than RMB 230,000 in the domestic market by mid-next year through our R&D works and deepen collaboration with our OEMs. And we think this definitely will be paid back for our future deployment and will attract more joint deployment business model partners. So I think this is a balancing regarding, again, the expenditure and also investment versus the trajectory of our growth. We are definitely putting the growth trajectory as our highest top priority. But we will always follow a value-driven and disciplined approach for these front-loaded expenditures.
Operator
The next question comes from Purdy Ho with Huatai Securities.
Purdy Ho
Management congratulations on the solid results. I'd like to focus on your international expansion strategy. Given the recent commercial traction we're seeing overseas, could you provide more colors on your road map for global fleet expansion? Specifically, as you are evaluating different markets such as the Middle East, Europe and Asia, what dictates your prioritization across these regions?
Jun Peng
Purdy, thank you. This is James. Let me take this one. As my answer to the last question, our company vision is autonomous mobility everywhere. And you can see that the global expansion has always been part of our strategic efforts. Our dual engine strategy is rapidly accelerating our global expansion. As more international countries introduce regulations in supporting autonomous driving and also there's many more partners want to work with us. Because of these 2 factors, we are seeing actually a tremendous growth opportunities abroad. In fact, several international markets have already started contributing to our -- contributing sizable revenues to us in Q1.
So essentially, we're capitalizing on this window because our technology and commercial operations in China's Tier 1 cities have already given us extensive experience in handling the most complex urban environments. And also, we have already achieved UE breakeven in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. So this proven technical capability and cost advantage also because of the overseas policy opening, this is actually the underlying driving force for our accelerated global efforts.
In terms of our international freight footprint, we are actually, as you mentioned, scaling quickly across all these key regions. We have now established a presence in 9 countries and started Robotaxi services to the public in 4 overseas markets, including Croatia, Qatar, Singapore and South Korea. In Europe, we're partnering with Uber and Verne to launch the region's first commercial Robotaxi in Zagreb. In the Middle East, we are advancing fare-charging services in Doha and initiating fully driverless operations in Dubai. In Asia, we have deployed public Robotaxi services in Singapore and currently are conducting robust testing in Seoul, South Korea.
So certainly, moving forward, we'll continue to collaborate closely with all the local regulators and our trusted partners to accelerate our commercialization. We'll certainly double down on our investment and fully committed to expand our footprint to over 20 cities worldwide by this year. With this, get back to the operator.
Operator
The next question comes from Eugene Hsiao with Macquarie Capital.
Eugene Hsiao
In the earnings release, some of the CapEx in Q1 was for stock building of [ 80,000 ]. I'm wondering if you could please update us on if there's any material input cost impacts from rising component costs. And I think Leo mentioned earlier that we're still on track for the BOM cost reduction to reach RMB 230,000 by next year. So what areas are we targeting to reach this target?
Haojun Wang
Yes, I'll take this question. This is Leo. Thank you for asking this question. In terms of BOM cost reduction, we have always been using a holistic approach, meaning we are looking into all aspects regarding the base vehicle, regarding the autonomous driving hardware kit to get the overall BOM cost down along the road. So I think several factors will drive down our future BOM cost.
First of all, we are deploying more and more vehicles. Our vehicle total fleet size will increase with a larger volume, especially with more and more joint deployment partnership coming in, we could give more quantity order to our suppliers, definitely that help us to negotiate with the pricing from our supplier.
Second is now we already have our Gen-7 vehicle on the street and accumulating millions of kilometers, giving us real data showing where we can refine our system, where we can simplify our system, where we can optimize our system. Based on these real data, definitely, we can do our R&D work to further cut down our BOM cost. Of course, the supply chain itself has certain uncertainty. However, Pony has been dealing these uncertainty along the years. So for this year, for example, the memory, of course, there is certain shortage. However, we acted quickly last year to secure the supply for memories. So again, this is showing our capability on handling these shortages. That's why we are very confident to hit that BOM cost target by mid-next year. Thank you.
Operator
As there are no further questions, I'd like to turn the call back over to the host for closing remarks.
George Shao
Thank you once again for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact our Investor Relations team. We look forward to speaking with you in the next quarter.
Operator
This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.
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