Uber is investing $300 million in Lucid, a spokesperson for the automaker, Nick Twork, confirmed. The investment in Nuro will be “significantly more than that,” Ferguson said, though he declined to share an exact figure. As part of the deal, Uber will take a seat on Nuro’s board of directors.

"We're thrilled to partner with Nuro and Lucid on this new robotaxi program, purpose-built just for the Uber platform, to safely bring the magic of autonomous driving to more people across the world," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement.

The autonomous vehicle sector got a jolt on Thursday when Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) announced a three-way partnership with Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) and privately held Nuro to deploy at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with Nuro's L4 autonomous technology on the Uber (NYSE:UBER) network over the next six years.