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Apple’s self-driving test vehicles doubled their mileage in 2020
Apple’s self-driving test vehicles doubled their mileage last yearm as reported by the California DMV which today released new disengagement…
Analyst: BMW, Stellantis, Magna among candidates to assemble ‘Apple Car’
Hyundai killed off talk of a potential “Apple Car” deal on Monday. Now, analyst thinks BMW, Stellantis, Magna, and others remain among…
Hyundai, Kia say ‘Apple Car’ deal now off; $8.5 billion erased off market value
South Korea’s Hyundai said on Monday it is not now in talks with Apple on autonomous electric cars, just a month after it confirmed…
Kia stock soars to two-decade high on report it will assemble Apple Car in Georgia in 2024
Apple will invest $3.6 billion in Kia as part of a deal to build Apple cars in Kia’s U.S. factory in Georgia in 2024.…
Apple reportedly to invest $3.6 billion in Kia Motors
Kia Motors shares surged as much as 14.5% after a local media report that Apple will invest 4 trillion won ($3.6 billion) as part of a…
Apple hires Porsche VP of chassis development for Apple Car
Apple has hired long-standing head of chassis development at Porsche for the construction of their own vehicle. Dr. Manfred Harrer…
Ming Chi-Kuo on Apple Car specs: 160 mph top speed, 300-mile range
new report from TF International Securities’ uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo potentially provides some interesting Apple Car specs …
Project Titan: Hyundai agonizes whether to embrace Apple
Hyundai said earlier this month it was in preliminary talks with Apple, but quickly clammed up, almost certainly at the behest of Apple …
Evercore raises Apple price target increase to $160
Apple got a price target increase to $160 from $145 from Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani who said the Cupertino Colossus’ proposed…
Apple Car could be assembled by Kia and made in USA
Hyundai subsidiary Kia could be the company responsible for assembling the Apple Car – and it would do so in its Georgia plant…
iPhone assembler Foxconn sets up vehicle venture as Apple Car looms
Apple’s assembly partner Foxconn is setting up a vehicle venture, strengthening its automotive manufacturing capabilities at a time when…
Why Tesla should be very, very afraid of Apple
Following tweets from Tesla founder Elon Musk on Tuesday saying that he’d reached out to Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2018, “during the darkest…
Elon Musk says had once reached out to Apple for acquiring Tesla
Elon Musk sreached out to Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla for a tenth of its current value…
Morgan Stanley: Apple could give ‘far more formidable’ competition to Tesla
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas noted that Apple will one day design and build vehicles, competing with Tesla …
Why is Apple building a car?
Shares of Apple rose in morning trading on a report that the world’s most valuable company aims to produce an “Apple Car” by 2024 with…
Apple shares rise on report of ‘Apple Car’ rollout in 2024
Shares of Apple rose sharply in pre-market trading on news of a passenger vehicle by 2024 with its own revolutionary battery technology…
Reuters: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes ‘next level’ battery technology
Apple is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to start production of a passenger vehicle that could include…
Apple reportedly discussing ‘Apple Car’ with automotive suppliers
On Wednesday, DigiTimes shared alleged details on Project Titan (“Apple Car”) autonomous vehicle development in Cupertino. Apple is…
Apple shifts leadership of autonomous vehicle systems to AI Chief
Bob Mansfield has retired (for good this time). Giannandrea will oversee the company’s continued work on autonomous vehicle systems…
Apple granted 64 patents, including vehicle charging system, braking system, and more
Apple today was granted 64 patents indicating that the pace of Apple’s intellectual property on their Project Titan vehicle/vehicular systems…
Morgan Stanley: Apple to control ‘Apple Car’ design, experiences, and services
“Apple Car” is a vehicle designed by Apple, not a software platform sold to carmakers, Morgan Stanley Katy Huberty believes…
Elon Musk wins as Alameda County capitulates over Tesla factory reopening
After Tesla’s factory reopened Monday with CEO Elon Musk practically daring local authorities to arrest him and after the factory’s operations continued…
Backed by President Trump, Elon Musk restarts Tesla factory in defiance of Alameda county orders
Backed by President Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Monday that the company’s factory in Fremont, California is open and has restarted production…
Elon Musk: Tesla prepared to leave California amid fight over shutdown
On Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he is going to sue Alameda County and move future operations out of California after a dispute…
Apple patent app reveals ‘autonomous navigation system’ for vehicles
Apple has filed for a U.S. patent for an “autonomous navigation system” which enables autonomous navigation of a vehicle along one or more portions of…
Newly-revealed patents offer glimpse of Apple’s 2020 vision
Apple patents granted in the final moments of 2019 shine a little light into its plans for the next decade…
Apple has ‘deep concerns’ that ex-employees accused of stealing trade secrets will flee to China
Apple Inc on Monday told a federal court it has “deep concerns” that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets…
U.S. says accused thief of Apple secrets had a classified Patriot missile file
When U.S. prosecutors charged an Apple Inc. engineer, Jizhong Chen, in January with stealing trade secrets for a Chinese startup
Apple’s ‘Project Titan’ could borrow TrueTone tech for vehicle cabin lighting
An Apple-produced car could include an lighting system that keeps the light inside the vehicle as even as possible throughout a journey…
Apple autonomous vehicle photographed with new sensor array
After the first video of the new sensor configuration of Apple’s autonomous cars surfaced, we got new pictures from a closer perspective…
Apple patent reveals vehicle imaging system for object detection
Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,397,497) for a “solar invariant imaging system for object detection” in a vehicle…
Maps shows Apple’s stick-to-itiveness, highlighting Google’s lack of perseverance
What Apple did in response to all of the negative press around Apple Maps? They didn’t give up, they got to work, kept at it for years, and are still…
Apple increases count of self-driving test drivers
Apple is, currently, testing a total of 69 cars on public roads of California, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles….
An Apple Car with no driver, steering wheel, pedals, horns, rearview mirrors?
Rearview mirrors, horns, and emergency brakes will be removed by 2030 and steering wheels, and gas/brake pedals will follow by 2035…
Apple poaches Tesla engineer with vehicle interior design experience
Apple Inc. has hired Steve MacManus, at least the third Tesla Inc. engineering executive to join the Cupertino Colossus…
Apple granted U.S. patent for ‘vehicle floor’
Apple wants to provide a floor structure that distributes forces from outboard impacts and/or minimizes a height thereof to maximize space for other uses…
Apple Car dreams: How could Apple not make an autonomous electric car someday?
We can’t ignore the dream of an autonomous electric car (EV) designed by Jony Ive’s team, with a clean modern user interface, sold in Apple Stores…
Apple patent reveals in-vehicle ‘interactive screen projection’ system
Apple has been granted a patent (number 20190164344) for a ‘system and method for interactive screen projection’ for a vehicle…
Apple patent application reveals ‘vehicle viewing system’
It involves a method that includes obtaining a video based on images…
Apple granted patent for a ‘passenger vehicle door and window’
A passenger vehicle includes a body, a powertrain, a first door, and a second door…
Apple in talks with suppliers of sensors for autonomous vehicles
The talks are focused on next-generation lidar, a sensor that provides a three-dimensional look at the road…
