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Apple Car Production Slated for 2024 With 'Next Level' Battery Technology
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What do you mean capacity and willingness ? they (whoever that might be) will be paid to do so , and they will be happy to get that job as well.
I am sorry , but you are asking the obvious questions which were discussed (and resolved) already in Apple HQ if they were set to build a car , the fact we don't know the answers doesn't mean they don't exist , you can bet that there is 0% that the biggest OEM in the world just missed the fact that they will need some way to assemble the car and left it to the very end of the R&D process.
You can imagine them wrapping up the car concept in 2023 and only then starting to think about how to build it in mass ? is that how you imagine Apple doing things ?
I wonder if Apple will try to go the Federal route instead of squabbling with the 18 states that don’t allow direct car sales.
If it exists and it’s that timeline, my guess is it will be fully autonomous. Will be interesting to see if my wild guess is true!
You didn’t really hear to much on the M1 but boom there is is alien chip technology same thing here....boom there it is
The logo looks like a gray alien with an Apple tattoo on his forehead peeping through a portal.
They could build it in China (like Polestar) or build it in Austria (like I-Pace). If Apple came with a boat load of money to the table they may be able to get one of the big three to make cars, but as far as I know we haven't had a US manufacturer build a car for someone else (not under the same ownership) in a while. I think DSM was the last time.
All I want is for iCloud Drive to sync reliably across three Macs. Don't want a car. Don't want speakers. Don't want headphones.
Not if you’re napping or watching Netflix. Is immense relaxation really the goal of operating a two-ton piece of hurtling machinery through public spaces?
Developing their own infrastruture is a double edged sword. If they do it like Tesla it can be seen as a boon (unless you live in CA, lol). They could follow in Volkswagens footsteps, make their own stations that are compatible with other CCS type 1 vehicles.
Or they can make SUV's and Trucks where the margins are already pretty high. Making a car (unless it is a luxury car) really isn't that profitable at least in the US, YMMV in the EU.
I previously doubted the reports, but now that Reuters is chiming in makes me wonder. But even when you discount the liabilities and dealership/servicing infrastructure mess out of the equation, you still have the low margins even on most mass produced luxury cars.
I love Tesla, but they are not raking in the dough on their cars. They hope to make small profits. Apple probably made higher profits with their Airpods lines alone than Tesla on their cars in the last quarter.
The concept of cars is cool enough, but it just sounds like a headache that Apple and shareholders do not need.
I love Tesla, but they are not raking in the dough on their cars. They hope to make small profits. Apple probably made higher profits with their Airpods lines alone than Tesla on their cars in the last quarter.
The concept of cars is cool enough, but it just sounds like a headache that Apple and shareholders do not need.
Yep, and it would be very cool and very expensive. But Apple would not make any serious profit from that. Not even Airpods money.
Let’s remember, in a quarter Apple makes billions on just wearables, Tesla makes millions if it’s lucky on their entire car production. Apple ships a simple little box with little dinguses and no moving parts and makes billions in profits. The question is WHY? Why is it a good idea for Apple to get in this space? Sounds masochistic.
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That would be a question of scale no? If Tesla could sell the same number of cars (suv/truck whatever) as Apple sells wearables they would be rolling in dough as well.
Shoot the whole auto market in the US averages ~16 million vehicles a year, which I am sure Apple sells more watch straps than that in a quarter. Getting folks to buy a (on average) $35,000 vehicle at a rate of 16 million of them is pretty impressive, no?
I don’t understand the “next level battery technology” aspect of this article, it claims that Apple is going to use Lithium Iron Phospate, which is also known as LiFePo4. This is technology dates back to the 90s and is already quite common in several areas. The main advantages are that it is inherently more stable and these safer than other Li-ion technologies, but it also has a lower energy densities (less capacity). Another advantage is that it usually lasts much longer, about 2 times as long as common Li-ion chemistries.
There is no next gen battery yet. There is lithium and we are pushing it for all we can. The next battery step will be big (batteries tend to follow a steep curve of energy density but do it stepwise with each technology having modest improvements over its life and new technologies being big leaps). When we get the next battery breakthrough battery cars will not be a competitive technology they will be the only rational choice. Solar and wind will start to be much more viable. It’s going to be huge. But Apple doesn’t have it.
Apple could make a small fortune out of this, unfortunately they'll start with a large fortune.
One thing about a Reuters story, it gets picked up on all the tech sites, CNBC etc. Of course Apple doesn’t usually comment on rumors but there are rare times when they do. A few years ago there was a rumor that the company was going to become an MVNO and a spokesperson denied it. So far its been crickets with all these car rumors over the years.
Depends how you define relaxing. For me, the fact that autopilot takes care of all the micro adjustments that you’re otherwise making while driving and staying in your lane, going around curves, slowing down and speeding up for traffic etc makes the driving experience much more relaxing. As of now you’re still paying complete attention to the road, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a really great feature to have.