According to Digitimes, Apple electric car Apple Car seems to have chosen a Tesla-like design, adopting a centralized integrated operating system, and South Korean manufacturers to help develop the sensor parts required for autonomous driving in the domain controller (Domain Control Unit; DCU).
From the current revelations, Apple is expected to launch its own intelligent networked car around 2025, which we temporarily call Apple Care. It is worth mentioning that last year, there was news that Apple originally planned to launch the Apple car in September 2022, at least two years earlier than the original plan, and even its prototype car has been tested on the road in California, but it seems to be just a rumor.
APPLE’S ELECTRIC CAR PLANS HAVE UNDERGONE SEVERAL TWISTS AND TURN SINCE THE PROJECT WAS APPROVED IN 2014, INCLUDING SEVERAL LEADERSHIP CHANGES.
In November 2021, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple is accelerating work on the project, targeting electric vehicles with fully autonomous driving capabilities. Gurman said Apple aims to release in 2025, but the time may be delayed due to development challenges.
According to Gurman, Apple’s vice president of technology Kevin Lynch took over the leadership of the electric vehicle program last year, and Lynch, who previously led the Apple Watch project, has been at Apple since 2013 and was an executive at Adobe before that.
recently, it has been reported that Foxconn and luxshare precision are the preferred manufacturers for the production of apple cars. luxun precision insiders responded that the company does have a certain business foundation in the car industry chain. however, when it comes to the specific customer situation, the company and the major customers have signed a confidentiality agreement, so there is no way to disclose this information.