Apple Car Rumor

Apple in contract discussions with Kia to close February 27th

Vehicle pricing to start because of autonomous tech in the 6 digits

100k Apple cars planned p.a. later 400k

Production start 2024

Apple focus is SW, AV, 🔋, chips, design & customer experience
Expected is a range of 500km and charging from 0-80% in 18min - in 2024/25 🤔

I remain skeptical that Apple is aware that the car business is a completely different playground

In 4 years people will expect 1,000km for a car they pay 100k for and not 500km 🥱

Luxury niche?
Manfred Harrer a former VW Engineer, for 13years with Porsche as VP and responsible for Cayenne has been hired from Apple according to sources

An ICE Manager leading a BEV Program?

In 2018 about 1,800 people worked on the Apple Titan project

It looks like they try again
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