New report says we won’t see the ‘Apple Car’ for at least five years — Apple World Today

Quoting unnamed “people with knowledge of the efforts,” the article says the tech giant has a small team of hardware engineers developing drive systems, vehicle interior and external car body designs with the goal of eventually shipping a vehicle. Bloomberg says this is “a more ambitious goal than in previous years when the project mostly focused on creating an underlying self-driving system.” The article adds that Apple has also added more ex-Tesla Inc. executives to the project.

As I’ve said numerous times, I don’t think our favorite tech company will build an automobile from scratch. I think it will work with car manufacturers to implement the many Apple-developed vehicle technologies into products that company (or, perhaps, companies) assemble.

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