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Apple Reportedly Aiming to Manufacture Apple Car Batteries in the United States
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Not to mention already has one factory building cars, as well as batteries. And nearing completion of building a second Gigafactory in Texas that will build the Cybertruck.
Then there is the speculation about the supposed Apple Car, who would feel comfortable letting Siri potentially contrtol or even give them directions when it Apple's AI can barely function after all these years.
Last I checked, Musk has not been to space, his company’s rocket has. He even booked a flight on Branson’s Virgin Galactic.
They should buy Lucid. High end quality, manufacturing is pretty much in place, beautiful cars and beautiful interiors. Apple could add their self driving knowledge and hit a home run.
Hope, they can compete with 2012 Tesla Model S
Apple aims to manufacture the batteries that will be used in its autonomous vehicle in the United States, rather than sourcing them from suppliers in other countries, according to a new report from DigiTimes.
From the report:
The report says that Foxconn, one of Apple's largest suppliers, and Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry, plan to set up plants in the United States, where the Apple Car battery production may take place. While the majority of Apple's products are assembled in China, many components are sourced from suppliers all around the world.
In the iPhone, for example, Apple uses glass made in Kentucky by Corning Glass, while other parts, such as the parts of the camera, are made by suppliers in Japan. With the Apple Car, which is still some years away, Apple is likely to take a similar approach to diversify its production supply chain.
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Weird… Apple‘s never shown any interest in having their other products “Made in the USA” (except the Mac Pro for political reasons).
Apple's AI? Do you mean speech recognition? Humans can't even communicate reliably with each other.
Or do you mean driving directions? Because the last person who gave me directions included the phrase 'turn left when you get to the street whose name sounds like the closed captioning of a French action movie. It starts with a P and I think it might be a type of tree."
Hardly.
Tesla is more like the Moto Startac or Razr.
Tesla is not the first all electric car, just the first modern good one.
Now all the others (ICE OEMs converting, new automotive dedicated startups, and entrants from other sectors like Apple) are piling in.
A car is a politically sensitive product where labor costs don’t play the biggest part of manufacturing cost.
Also when you are getting into such a product you might not want your first assembly location to be on the other side of the world.
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Why wouldn’t this be in their long term plan after they launch in USA and get the kinks worked out?
Hey, how about all those autopilot fatalities under NHTSA investigation? (So far Apples cars haven’t killed anyone.)
never said it was the first.
look at all the ICE OEMs having problems. porsche can't even do proper OTA updates and asks everyone to visit a dealership to fix a "sudden power loss" issue via manual software update.
20x more at the moment because it’s cheap to get it from there. If that supply becomes expensive or constrained there are lithium deposits in numerous places.
If Apple Car is real, why are they so secretive about it? They should be in all out promotion mode to attract the best auto design/manufacturing and autonomous AI engineers. Think about it, if you can't get a job with Tesla, would you rather for Apple or legacy auto companies? Apple has gobs of cash to throw at the project and no boat anchor ICE auto business to protect.
Not as much as we use to but, whatever can be done to improve that is a good thing, in my opinion.