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Apple Cancels Electric Car Project
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There are plenty of EVs from various brands that run great.
Of course there are. Battery technology is rapidly evolving. We’re not going to stay with Lithium forever.
The EU decided to switch the entire EU-fleet to electric by 2035. They wouldn’t have passed this legislation if the tech wouldn’t be there.
Being back the AirPort!
Lithium ion batteries and their components on the other hand…
Hydrogen cars are NEVER going to be a thing. It's a dead end.
Hydrogen is quite possibly the single least efficient way to power a car ever thought of. You can make hydrogen from natural gas, in which case you're wasting a lot of energy to do that (and then you've still got the CO2 to deal with), wasting a lot of energy transporting it, and wasting a lot of energy using it in a fuel cell. Or you can make it with electricity and water, in which case it's a MASSIVE waste of electricity. It makes FAR more sense to just use electricity to charge a battery.
Oh, and hydrogen is even more explodey than gasoline.
A good move. Apple seem to go for the premium line in most of their products and it just wouldn’t have worked against established luxury automakers. They would have had to have gone in at the affordable level but Tesla are king there and there are so many others competing in that sector.
I would never have bought a car with a Siri assistant either to be blunt, it’s rubbish at the best of times on all my other Apple products lol.
I would never have bought a car with a Siri assistant either to be blunt, it’s rubbish at the best of times on all my other Apple products lol.
let's wait until that happens, and, Tesla taking responsibility and liability in case of accidents, which will happen ...
Mercedes is the only one who has a level 3 car (in CA) at the moment and they are denying liability
Best consumer routers I have ever had.
I use Ubiquiti now, and they are the most "Apple" you can get, but it may be a little too much for most people.
Please Explain how they’re not efficient.. especially compared to gas powered cars.
Sorry that is not an official Apple approved color. Would you like Space Grey?
I’m sure they’ll make plenty from the thousands of patents they’ve likely created as a result of this project.
Someone needs to let Japan know then.....
Absolutely! What's a few pedestrians or semi-trucks if they can solve the phantom braking by getting rid of the only technology that works in the rain, amiright? /s
NHTSA moves slowly, but eventually every Tesla without radar is going to be recalled.
From its beginning, Apple has controlled the hardware. Their reputation for “it just works” came from supporting an Apple printer to work with your Macintosh. You didn’t have to mess with DIP switches. It came with the right cable in the box. Hobbyists preferred to build their own, but Apple was for people who didn’t want to think about technology details.
There are examples of Apple licensing software: Samsung TVs come with an Apple TV app preinstalled. But it’s not the Apple way.
The fanboy in me is sad, but this OS a smart move by Apple. Electric and self driving cars are not the future. The auto industry is on the verge of another collapse. We need cheaper cars not expensive tech loaded vehicles
"...and the vehicle would have been on par with Tesla..." Yeah, right. They can't make the car at all but somehow it would be as good as a Tesla? 10 years and nothing to show for it. Did they think Foxcon was going to make it for them? Delusional. The Tesla guys were able to pull it off because they are a scrappy bunch willing to sleep in the factory. Tim Cook? Nope. Apple could've bought Tesla in 2018 but Tim has his head in the sand. And all these years... AI... and ChatGPT etc being developed, and Siri sucked. Suddenly Apple figures it out and the same time my aunt millie figured it out, and now timmy is trying to catch up. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I recall the rumor was the Apple Car would come out in 2020. I was waitig for it. Instead I bought a Tesla in 2023. Fantastic car.
"Is this about the McRib? Seriously, dude. Let it go."
Haven't you heard about Toyota's latest stupid stunt? Anhydrous ammonia!
Sure, it's so poisonous that a tiny leak will kill everybody inside or around the car, but other than that it'll be great!
Hydrogen is not and will never be a serious thing for powering cars. Japan knows this. Toyota knows this. They're trying to keep pretending that ICE cars have a future.
Good! I don’t know why ANYONE thought a provider of consumer electronics would suddenly be successful at making cars???
They would be stupidly expensive, completely locked to Apple’s ecosystem and probably worse at basic car things than cars from companies that actually specialize in making cars. And maintenance and repairs would only happen at specialized Apple stores and be also stupidly expensive. It sounds like the worst product. I don’t know why anyone was interested in this. All so CarPlay can work a bit better for you?! Really???
Yes I get it. Tesla. But that was still a company dedicated to making cars. And not simply trying to create a bigger platform for their services which is all that Apple Car would be about.
Everyone assumed because it was Apple they could just make it work (if Google or Microsoft had suggested something similar everyone here would have laughed their asses off). Sometimes a bad idea is just a bad idea even if it comes from Apple.
They would be stupidly expensive, completely locked to Apple’s ecosystem and probably worse at basic car things than cars from companies that actually specialize in making cars. And maintenance and repairs would only happen at specialized Apple stores and be also stupidly expensive. It sounds like the worst product. I don’t know why anyone was interested in this. All so CarPlay can work a bit better for you?! Really???
Yes I get it. Tesla. But that was still a company dedicated to making cars. And not simply trying to create a bigger platform for their services which is all that Apple Car would be about.
Everyone assumed because it was Apple they could just make it work (if Google or Microsoft had suggested something similar everyone here would have laughed their asses off). Sometimes a bad idea is just a bad idea even if it comes from Apple.
I'm sorry but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Both production AP and FSD Beta work in the rain.