Apple to Charge Under $100,000 for Apple Car, Launch Planned for 2026

[zloturtle]

Somehow Apple is going to manage to have proprietary wheels and a sealed, non-replaceable battery in them. Then they'll be extended Apple Care and a subscription to their navigation app. The custom charging cable will be $1,500, not included with the car to help save the environment.

 

[Marsikus]

The custom charging cable will be $1,500, not included with the car to help save the environment.

Quite an old meme, anyways...

 

[stockseer]

Apple is aiming to launch an Apple-branded consumer-oriented vehicle by 2026, and its goal is to hit a price point under $100,000 to make the car appeal to a wider range of customers, reports Bloomberg.

Apple initially planned to design a car that might look similar to Canoo's Lifestyle Vehicle, where passengers could face one another in a limousine-style car with no steering wheel or pedals, but the project has been scaled back. The vehicle will now have a more traditional design with a driver's seat, steering wheel, and pedals, and full autonomous driving will not be available, but the car will be able to use a self-driving mode on highways.

Canoo Interior​

Apple's main competitor will likely be Tesla, a brand that features electric vehicles with some self-driving functionality. Tesla vehicles are priced starting at around $47,000, but can go up to over $100,000. If the base Apple Car is priced at or around $100,000, it will compete with Tesla's higher-end Model S.

The original plan was to price the Apple Car over $120,000, but Apple is now planning for a lower price point, likely due to the more restricted autonomous driving functionality that will be featured in the first version of the vehicle. Apple has not finalized a design for the Apple Car, but is planning to have a design set by 2023 and a list of features ready to go by 2024. Testing will begin in 2025 ahead of a planned 2026 launch.

Apple continues to look for a partner for the manufacturing of its car, and it has so far only held serious negotiations with Volkswagen, but those talks were many years ago.

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More to the story? Apple hired the former President of Canoo; and Canoo's CEO just purchased an additional 9 million shares at the throwaway current price. So do we just assume there's no correlation; or Walmart will have (already clear) the majority of all production in 2023, with Canoo ready to go in Oklahoma by the time America sees the NASA Canoo vehicle drive the astronauts to the Artimis rocket. Really. Or Army deal. I know people say there's no deal with Apple; but there is with Walmart; and they could provide the service centers for Canoo vehicles 'if' Apple were to introduce a variation.

 

[joloriquelme]

Or you can catch it while riding the elevator down to parking

That's why the stairs exists.

 

[Marsikus]

That's why the stairs exists.

In skyscrapers stairs are for fire emergency (and cut waiting time when elevators are overly busy to certain floors )

 

[voy@ger]

I have been reading here regarding EVs about practicality, range, weight, affordability (with and without tax credits).
We need to do some sort of poll here, to see what people are looking for in an Apple electric car.

I have a very specific opinion of what a Next-Gen EV (or Apple car) may look like and
what it's supposed to bring to the market that's already inundated with new EVs...