INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The iPhone makers automotive efforts is known as Project Titan.Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting
2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told
Reuters.The iPhone maker's automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when it first started to design
its own vehicle from scratch
At one point, Apple drew back the effort to focus on software and reassessed its goals
Doug Field, an Apple veteran who had worked at Tesla Inc, returned to oversee the project in 2018 and laid off 190 people from the team in
2019.Since then, Apple has progressed enough that it now aims to build a vehicle for consumers, two people familiar with the effort said,
asking not to be named because Apple's plans are not public
Apple's goal of building a personal vehicle for the mass market contrasts with rivals such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo, which has built
robo-taxis to carry passengers for a driverless ride-hailing service.Central to Apple's strategy is a new battery design that could
design.Apple declined to comment on its plans or future products.Making a vehicle represents a supply chain challenge even for Apple, a
company with deep pockets that makes hundreds of millions of electronics products each year with parts from around the world, but has never
It took Elon Musk's Tesla 17 years before it finally turned a sustained profit making cars."If there is one company on the planet that has
the resources to do that, it's probably Apple
Apple-branded car, but sources have said they expect the company to rely on a manufacturing partner to build vehicles
And there is still a chance Apple will decide to reduce the scope of its efforts to an autonomous driving system that would be integrated
with a car made by a traditional automaker, rather than the iPhone maker selling an Apple-branded car, one of the people added.Two people
with knowledge of Apple's plans warned pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.
