Marti and Tensor partner to deploy autonomous vehicles in Türkiye
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Marti Technologies, one of Türkiye’s mobility super app, and Tensor, a pioneer in personal autonomous vehicles, has announced a multi-year partnership to purchase and deploy Tensor autonomous vehicles (AVs) on Marti’s mobility platform in cities across Türkiye.
Marti currently offers ride-hailing services in 20 cities across Türkiye representing approximately 80% of the country’s GDP, including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Kocaeli, Bursa, Antalya, Konya, Adana, Mersin, Gaziantep, Tekirdağ, Manisa, Kayseri, Muğla, Sakarya, Samsun, Eskişehir, Denizli, Aydın and Yalova. Following launch, Marti platform consumers will be able to hail Tensor autonomous vehicles directly within the Marti app.
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2016, Tensor is the first company to develop a Level 4 autonomous vehicle designed from the ground up for both personal ownership and professional fleet operations. Using a decade of AV development and holding California’s second-ever driverless testing permit for passenger vehicles, Tensor revealed the world’s first personal Robocar in August 2025. While purpose-built for private owners, the platform is fully functional for fleet deployment, featuring native ride-share capabilities that allow the vehicle to be integrated into global autonomous mobility networks. To maximise fleet uptime and performance, Tensor’s architecture features a vertically integrated compute and sensor stack alongside proprietary sensor cleaning technology, enabling rapid scaling of operational design domains and seamless enhancements via deep over-the-air (OTA) updates that extend down to the firmware level.
The Tensor Robocar is powered by its proprietary supercomputer which includes 8x Thor-X NVIDIA GPU’s, which supports its sophisticated onboard AI and a safety-first architecture utilising high-redundancy systems.
“Our strategic collaboration with Marti is a bold step in our mission to democratise autonomy and bring a premium autonomous experience to Marti platform consumers,” said Jay Xiao, the CEO of Tensor. “Building on our recent partnership announcements in the USA, UAE and Europe, this partnership reaffirms our global commitment to bringing the luxury of safe, efficient and scalable autonomous mobility to the world. Together with Marti, we are excited to deliver the cutting edge of transportation technology to platform consumers across Türkiye.”
“As Türkiye’s leading urban mobility platform, Marti has consistently pioneered the introduction of new tech-enabled transportation services across the country. We are proud to build on this track record by working to introduce autonomous ride-hailing to Türkiye in partnership with Tensor,” commented Oguz Alper Oktem, the founder and chief executive officer of Marti. “With our extensive field operations team, established infrastructure, and approximately 7.8 million all-time unique platform consumers, Marti is well positioned to support the rapid, safe deployment of Tensor’s autonomous vehicle fleet in the years ahead.”
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