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Apple Cancels Electric Car Project
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1. Smart Ring, HomePod with screen, AirPod with camera would have a lower developed cost and would be better to market to the masses. $200 cost Vs $100,000.
2. We know Apple is developing and putting huge stock into Ai with iOS 18. As far as ChatGPT/Gemini and copilot could have App alongside them.
3. Tesla would have ceased to exist in 2015 if it was not for the multiple personal financial bailouts. Tesla is Tesla because of the following it has. Truth be told, it’s more TeslaOS that makes it popular. Rivian and Lucid are just as great.
4. Can’t speak for Lenovo and Samsung. I do believe Apple will have a foldable product, but only when it meets Apple‘s standards.
Did anyone actually think this would happen? Obvious stock pumping tactic
Apple should have bought Tesla a few years ago if they were serious about this.
No steering wheel and controlled by siri. This was going nowhere.
Similar to my other comment, maintaining current rolling stock and perfecting this is by far greener than producing new electric cars https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/what-is-synthetic-fuel-efuel/
Probably looked cool, ground breaking and amazing when Johnny Ive first started to draw it 10 years ago. But EV’s have changed a lot since then.
Good call to cancel.
Good call to cancel.
And what margins do they have from software?
Here's the thing-- that's only true in very specific routes. The long road trips on the routes I take would require adding HOURS of charging time to get to the destinations. Until ALL routes can offer similar transit times to gas vehicles, electric cars still suck for long routes.
Electric cars have literally no upsides whatsoever.
They cost more to buy. They cost more to refill, and they take so much longer doing so. They have so much less range than other cars. Worst of all, they are a proven danger to society.
They are far more prone to fires and explosions due to the sheer volume of battery in the car, and not if but when they catch on fire, they take time and resources tenfold what a standard car fire would take.
One upside to an EV is all I ask.
Aren't "green" compared to what? Bikes? Yes, you're right there. Transit? Again, yes.
But compared to the internal combustion vehicles they directly replace, they're massively more efficient and "green" by any measure.
They saw the route EV's are doing and battery technology. They can't make a big enough impact in the industry. I'm ok with this.
Realistically, partnership was the only way this was going to work.
Quite a few businesses are nervous about partnering with Apple...and very few of the top tier ones would be so inclined.
Quite a few businesses are nervous about partnering with Apple...and very few of the top tier ones would be so inclined.
Sounds like you know very little about EVs. Just saying
Far less carbon per mile emitted into the atmosphere.
Apple is probably more focused on the Vision Pro and its future and creating there own 5G modem
Probably the battery was too heavy so they had to make it externally attached as a trailer.
Or it turned out to be too difficult to turn the car over each time you need to charge it.
Or they realized they’d have to make it multi-user.
Or the FineWoven tires proved to degrade too quickly.
Or they realized they couldn’t source enough titanium for the car frame.
As an automotive engineer, I think this a good idea. Please focus on what you actually have experience in.
The pollution caused by creating the battery will far outweigh the gas produced by a standard car.
The batteries are toxic waste.
I rather think they realized they couldn’t make the AI good enough to self-drive a car.
So it becomes the new Siri now instead.
Surprised but not surprised. Apple could have worked on it indefinitely, but fully autonomous driving is years if not decades away and all they would have been doing is keeping up with the industry on the drawing board while not actually shipping a product. Apple can reinsert themselves in this space at a later point in time when the technology is more viable. Think about it as ditching the Newton and coming back with the iPhone when tech and infrastructure to support it was much further along. Apple is not going out of business any time soon and the future is wide open.
They don't cost more to "refill"... that is absolutely false.
And by the way, an electric car is just about as prone to exploding as the phone in your pocket.