Waymo Buys Apple's Former Car Testing Facility for $220 Million

Apple has sold the sprawling Arizona test facility that served as a proving ground for its canceled car project, offloading the 5,500-acre site to Alphabet-owned Waymo for $220 million. The transaction, recorded in Maricopa County on June 5, closes one of the final tangible chapters of Project Titan.



County documents show the property moving from Route 14 Investment Partners LLC — a Delaware shell company linked to Apple — to Waymo. The deal was first spotted in county filings by the Phoenix Business Journal and later reported by TechCrunch, after which Waymo confirmed the acquisition. Apple originally leased the site for several years before purchasing the former Chrysler proving ground for $125 million in 2021.


The Wittmann facility includes a 115-acre city course, a 35-acre vehicle dynamics area, a four-mile oval track, and a freeway course purpose-built for autonomous vehicle testing. Apple used the location to evaluate prototype vehicles as Project Titan evolved through multiple iterations, including autonomous driving systems and plans for a consumer vehicle.

Apple spent billions of dollars on the initiative, at one point targeting a 2024 vehicle launch, before ultimately shutting down the project in early 2024. During the program's earlier years, the company also explored other high-security testing environments, including a former naval base in California.

Apple later surrendered its California autonomous vehicle testing permit and reassigned many employees to artificial intelligence initiatives. Apple paid $125 million for the Arizona property, meaning the sale generated a roughly $95 million gain on the site despite the broader collapse of its automotive ambitions.

Waymo said it will use the Arizona site to simulate driving scenarios in a controlled environment, supporting rider-only testing, motion-control evaluation, operational training workflows, and future expansion of its autonomous vehicle program. The company already operates testing facilities in California and Ohio, but the Wittmann site is significantly larger than either location.