Apple Inc. joins the company car game with automatic driving.
Conformable Reuters, the iPhone manufacturer is aiming at 2024 as a potential date for the goal of entering into combat with a self-driving passenger vehicle, one that will potentially be powered by Apple’s exclusive battery technology.
Known as The Titan Project, Apple’s car plans appear to be derailing temporarily 2014, when the company ceded resources to to pivot to more profitable software projects. But since then, Apple has apparently shut down operations as plans are now in full swing to produce a consumer vehicle – a project that competitors like Waymo, which has so far focused exclusively onin the driverless journeyshare, have history he escaped.
Tsupply chain challenges inherent in the production of its first vehicle will mean that even Apple, an electronics company with a global coverage, will solve its activity. However, “If there is one company on the planet that has the resources to do this, it is probably Apple,” an anonymous Project Titan contributor told Reuters. “But, at the same time, it is not a mobile phone “, added the source.
The big selling point of the planned vehicle will be it will probably be its battery, which seems to be a unique “single-cell” design of Apple’s invention, which could be compensation bags and modules containing battery materials to create more space for the active material inside the battery itself and to give the car more autonomy.
Sources who spoke to Reuters said that Apple is also investigating the technology for LFP or lithium-iron phosphate, as a potentially safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries that would also be less likely to overheat.
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In the manufacture of potential future self-driving vehicles, sources say that Apple would most likely call on third-party partners to help with the assembly. It is said that the company originally had entered into discussions with Magna International Inc., but those plans have faded, sources close to the project said.