A car for the mass market supposedly remains the goal of Apple’s big “Project Titan”. The development has advanced so far that Apple has now decided to manufacture a vehicle intended for end customers, as reported by the news agency Reuters , citing informed persons. Currently the group aims for the year 2024 as the start of production.

The battery as a competitive advantage The central element of the car is its own battery technology, which is cheaper should be produced and at the same time enable a greater range. The focus is also on battery cells with as much active material as possible by largely avoiding packaging of the battery, as Reuters reports – Tesla is also working on similar optimizations. Apple is also interested in lithium iron phosphate cells (LFP) in order to reduce the risk of overheating and to make the vehicle as safe as possible, according to the report.

To what extent Apple wants to use its own autonomous systems to enable assisted driving remains open. At the beginning of December it was announced that Apple’s head of artificial intelligence has taken over the management of the Titan project, and accordingly the development of an autonomous vehicle should be one of the declared goals. The group will use lidar sensors to record the environment, it has been said for a long time – an in-house development is also being considered. There is also speculation that Apple wants to have the cars built by a contract manufacturer instead of building its own production plants.

Apple Car – only takes a few more years For a long time Apple Car has been around three to five years away: When the reports on the project are in the year 2015, was quickly about a start of production in the period from 2018 to 2020 speculated. Tesla boss Elon Musk said at the time that he did not believe that Apple could start production before 2020 – “they would have the project earlier should tackle “. (lbe)