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Reuters reports that Apple will start producing an
electric car, targeting 2024 to start production, citing unnamed "people
familiar with the matter."
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This Apple EV would be powered by Apple's monocell battery
technology, which could yield more capacity in the same space as a traditional
battery pack.
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No
news on if Apple will manufacture the vehicle itself or work with a third
party.
Apple has long been rumored to be working on a car,
even before everyone got excited about EVs. According to a new report from
Reuters, that vehicle might finally be coming to fruition in 2024.
Reuters reported that
the Apple car will start production in 2024 and will feature “next level”
battery technology. The report doesn’t specify if Apple will build the vehicle
itself or look to partners for the actual manufacturing of the EV, but it does
say, citing "two people familiar with the effort," that it's going to
be a personal, mass-market vehicle rather than a robotaxi or commercial
vehicle.
Apple's car plan, under the code name Project Titan, has been an open secret in the automobile and tech world since its inception in 2014. The tech company snatched up vehicle engineers from Porsche, Tesla, and other automakers, including Alexander Hitzinger, who recently left the company and returned to the VW Group to head its own Project Artemis.
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