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I can't wait to see the wireless tankers which will make the deliveries to the charging station owner's underground tanks.

Then we'll see the charging station advertising:

"Shell Plus with Boron, cleans your charge while you are driving"

Then the charge prices will all go up, due to electricity shortages, caused by the Arabian countries.

And, NY and NJ prices:

0.6999 p. kw/h Cash
0.7999 p. kw/h Credit

Exciting future.
 
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They should just station-pool with Tesla. End of.

Can't easily share standards and maximize profits on proprietary. I imagine heavily patented "breakthrough" charging solution only available from Apple and only for Apple Car... which means there will be places where you have to drive 300 miles out of the way because that will be the nearest charger compatible with your car. ;)
 
Hmm, I'm curious if it's possible to have a station that can be charged from lightnings? Did anyone research such possibility?
 
Apple car? No thanks. 16KWh for $64,900. 64KWh for $74,900, 128KWh for $84,900. You can't change battery because it's bonded. You can drive 16KWh iCar for 18 minutes. Schiller says it's enough because there are many charging stations.

And it would be positioned as if they did years of studies "90 percent of travelers go less than 15 miles per day - that's why we have made sure our car can go at least 18." and then "Very few drivers have been affected by our car going 18 miles. We have the highest satisfaction rate compared to other electric cars. And next years model will be even thinner!"
 
Don't tell Apple to buy Tesla. Jony will kill it with a male charging port at the bottom, unreadable fonts on white background and try to make it skinnier but full of humps, bumps, warts and moles. Unless Elon Musk is the CEO of both companies since Jony and Tim are only able to take directions but can't lead.
 
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Hmm, I'm curious if it's possible to have a station that can be charged from lightnings? Did anyone research such possibility?

Can you charge any of your Apple devices with lightning (the weather phenomena not the cable/jack)?

Jokes aside: capturing power is easy, storing it is hard. Capturing a lightning bolt's energy is particularly hard. Note how everything that charges now paces- even slow paces- the charge. Why does it take hours to charge an iDevice battery when we could feed it much higher wattage for a faster charge? Because it's not as simple as that.
 
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There was a time when Apple was about having just a few things, but doing them right and extremelly well. Now they are a company that sells old-tech laptops, a not so buggy OS, a very buggy iOS, a terrible QA proccess, tablets with marginal ugrades, samsung like phones, tries to sell music, boring keynotes, a second class TV sream box, rose-gold colors, watch bands, and now cars? Can you imagine a car from Apple the way things are now?? they are trying to do a lot of things and almost none in the right way, a car requires focus and experience, would you buy a car (worst.. an electric car) from the guys that brought you old tech, Apple Music, bricked devices, Apple Maps and watch bands with a iPhone design? What is Apple?
 
here's an idea, why don't they all use the same standard instead of unnecessarily creating different plugs compatible with different charging stations

That would be the sensible thing to do, but this is Apple we're talking about. Given their history of differentiating their hardware from other manufacturers' hardware (e.g. magsafe v. AC, lightning v. usb-c), I'm not sure if they'll take the sensible route.
 
That's a darn good thing too. I think Tesla and Apple together would make a horrible clash of personalities. Apple's all about secrecy and Tesla is pretty open. Besides, I like that Elon has a clear goal for Tesla. Whether he achieves it or not remains to be seen. Let Apple do their thing, Tesla do it's thing, and have competition drive someone to do something better.

First it was Mac v. PC, then iOS v. Android. Soon to be AppleMobile v. Tesla?
 
There was a time when Apple was about having just a few things, but doing them right and extremelly well. Now they are a company that sells old-tech laptops, a not so buggy OS, a very buggy iOS, a terrible QA proccess, tablets with marginal ugrades, samsung like phones, tries to sell music, boring keynotes, a second class TV sream box, rose-gold colors, watch bands, and now cars? Can you imagine a car from Apple the way things are now?? they are trying to do a lot of things and almost none in the right way, a car requires focus and experience, would you buy a car (worst.. an electric car) from the guys that brought you old tech, Apple Music, bricked devices, Apple Maps and watch bands with a iPhone design? What is Apple?

With that kind of subversive talk you'll get us all thrown out of here! Quick. Before the Emperor realises he's naked .... :D
 
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Can you charge any of your Apple devices with lightning (the weather phenomena not the cable/jack)?

Jokes aside: capturing power is easy, storing it is hard. Capturing a lightning bolt's energy is particularly hard. Note how everything that charges now paces- even slow paces- the charge. Why does it take hours to charge an iDevice battery when we could feed it much higher wattage for a faster charge? Because it's not as simple as that.
Charge (and discharge) rate affects battery life and it's an inverse relationship. The concept of EVs is attractive in a mild climate like the Bay Area. Put the cars in North Dakota or Phoenix and the attractiveness wanes considerably.
 
And it would be positioned as if they did years of studies "90 percent of travelers go less than 15 miles per day - that's why we have made sure our car can go at least 18." and then "Very few drivers have been affected by our car going 18 miles. We have the highest satisfaction rate compared to other electric cars. And next years model will be even thinner!"

...and roll out with a different (proprietary) port- CarCharger 2- that requires an adapter (sold separately of course) to work with earlier iCars but basically pressing all Car1 buyers to "upgrade."

By Car 3, "thinner" drivers will demand thinner drivers:D. Else, I picture just a slab for the car and 4 wheels.

By Car 4, the wheels will be eliminated (sold separately as "car mobility adapters") so that "even thinner" can be achieved.

By Car 5, the box will be empty (but we'll still pay about as much as Car1 was priced) and we'll all actually be doing a "Forrest Gump"...


...but that box might still come with a Apple sticker to go in the (not actually there) back window.

After that, the sticker will be internally judged too thick and not make the Car 6 box.

I'm already buying NIKE stock in anticipation.

All ;)
 
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You can just imagine it.
Apple car chargers are not compatible with other chargers, and need their own apple connector to work.

Thank god Apple was not around when petrol/gas cars were being developed as we'd all now how to find the right pump that fitted our current car.
 
And it would be positioned as if they did years of studies "90 percent of travelers go less than 15 miles per day - that's why we have made sure our car can go at least 18." and then "Very few drivers have been affected by our car going 18 miles. We have the highest satisfaction rate compared to other electric cars. And next years model will be even thinner!"
And they'd still sell like gangbusters -- to much wailing and gnashing of teeth from forum illuminati

But don't worry! Microsoft "save the day" with the Surface Car Pro!
 
It is unclear whether Apple would want its own proprietary technology, such as Tesla Motors' Supercharger network, or design a system compatible with offerings from other market players.

I think I can make a VERY safe bet here...
 
talk talk talk, just do it Apple. This mystery and rumor mongering for years is tiresome. Tesla has set the bar on which ALL companies, automotive or otherwise, should be reaching and nobody has gotten there yet.

Yet again Apple is following on other people's footsteps and the anticipation and expectations for their product is ridiculous. Someone has already achieved great success in the EV market, Apple doesn't need to try and redefine or claim to provide more innovation in this market, if they want to offer a competitive product, do it, don't grand stand for years and spend years talking with partners that go nowhere.

Apple did the EXACT same thing with a supposed real TV set, talked for years with cable providers and content providers and TV set manufacturers, and it went nowhere. If Apple wants to brand their own car, do it, period.

The last thing on earth we need is Apple to come along and create their own proprietary charge port just because they didn't get into this market first and don't want to give a nod towards the groundbreakers and innovators that came before them. I am sure Tesla's charge port and fast charging solution is more than good enough as a standard, and there are other EV cars on the market using a standard port. Apple doesn't need to "discuss" talks about charging stations, they just need to do what they always do, follow the leader and not try to do something different for the sake of being different when they are running far behind.

The last thing we need is for Apple to claim they invented or reinvented the EV market by simply tweaking what real innovators have already succeeded in doing. At the end of the day, its 4 wheels and a steering wheel, and a port to charge it, Apple isn't going to re-invent cars, period.
 
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talk talk talk, just do it Apple. This mystery and rumor mongering for years is tiresome. Tesla has set the bar on which ALL companies, automotive or otherwise, should be reaching and nobody has gotten there yet.

Yet again Apple is following on other people's footsteps and the anticipation and expectations for their product is ridiculous. Someone has already achieved great success in the EV market, Apple doesn't need to try and redefine or claim to provide more innovation in this market, if they want to offer a competitive product, do it, don't grand stand for years and spend years talking with partners that go nowhere.

Apple did the EXACT same thing with a supposed real TV set, talked for years with cable providers and content providers and TV set manufacturers, and it went nowhere. If Apple wants to brand their own car, do it, period.

The last thing on earth we need is Apple to come along and create their own proprietary charge port just because they didn't get into this market first and don't want to give a nod towards the groundbreakers and innovators that came before them. I am sure Tesla's charge port and fast charging solution is more than good enough as a standard, and there are other EV cars on the market using a standard port. Apple doesn't need to "discuss" talks about charging stations, they just need to do what they always do, follow the leader and not try to do something different for the sake of being different when they are running far behind.

The last thing we need is for Apple to claim they invented or reinvented the EV market by simply tweaking what real innovators have already succeeded in doing. At the end of the day, its 4 wheels and a steering wheel, and a port to charge it, Apple isn't going to re-invent cars, period.
Apple isn't talk talk talking about this. That would be US.
 
"Apple is not spending $10 billion on R&D just to come up with new Watch bands,"

huh, that's funny, I thought that's a joke within Macrumor forum only. I guess it's more universal than i thought
 
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