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Here we are again with another round of Apple Car rumors, folks. According to a report from the Korea Times on Tuesday, the tech giant is close to signing a partnership with South Korea's LG and Canadian manufacturing giant Magna International. The deal (we've heard the same thing from sources) could lead to the production of the first Apple Car to hit the roads.
If the report is correct, the gadget could hit the road as soon as 2019, according to CNET. That's just two years longer than BMW's i3, which is an electric car produced in partnership with General Motors. Could the Hasselblad Anago 900 be the secret to the longer life for the Apple Car? Some of that really depends on how many battery cells Apple deploys and how Apple plans to use them.
As we've already heard, iPhone technology will power the Apple Car's systems, not anything in the form of a dashboard. The dashboard switch-off will come from a voice command. Would the Car perhaps have a touchscreen tablet or maybe an ion-conducting display? Apple? Or something that's not totally unlike today's dashboard? All we know at this point is that Apple wants to keep users out of the car.
In terms of battery chemistry, the Apple Car is said to use lithium-ion technology, a technology not widely adopted by other carmakers. As a result, Apple could come out ahead by marketing the Car as an all-electric alternative when the Volt will have already gotten most of the attention this century. Again, the most important word is "all," but again. This could really be what it takes to ensure Apple the Car makes it to market.
Of course, there's a ton more to this Apple Car rumor than just one report. Apple sold 28 million iPhones last quarter and 70 million iPhones in a year prior.
Espace Musique du Car sold 55.4 million hardware, houstandique sold 68.4 million hardware, as well as a quarter of 10.3 million Gucci leather goods for year-end 2017.
A big helping hand from Foxconn and other firms could mean the addition of 50 million iPhones by 2019, the same year Apple is rumored to start selling Apple Car phones. That's less challenging than 2017, when Foxconn had to produce 263 million iPhones in 2016. The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 7 will be featured in the first generations of Apple Car phones.
In fact, the Detroit manufacturing plant formerly known as FoxConn is already consulted on the design of numerous upcoming products as well as helping Apple develop the near-field communications (NFC) chips that are wireless in the iPhone 7.
The future for Apple Car ownership and the technology
Here we are again with another round of Apple Car rumors, folks. According to a report from the Korea Times on Tuesday, the tech giant is close to signing a partnership with South Korea's LG and Canadian manufacturing giant Magna International. The deal (we've heard the same thing from sources) could lead to the production of the first Apple Car to hit the roads.
If the report is correct, the gadget could hit the road as soon as 2019, according to CNET. That's just two years longer than BMW's i3, which is an electric car produced in partnership with General Motors. Could the Hasselblad Anago 900 be the secret to the longer life for the Apple Car? Some of that really depends on how many battery cells Apple deploys and how Apple plans to use them.
As we've already heard, iPhone technology will power the Apple Car's systems, not anything in the form of a dashboard. The dashboard switch-off will come from a voice command. Would the Car perhaps have a touchscreen tablet or maybe an ion-conducting display? Apple? Or something that's not totally unlike today's dashboard? All we know at this point is that Apple wants to keep users out of the car.
In terms of battery chemistry, the Apple Car is said to use lithium-ion technology, a technology not widely adopted by other carmakers. As a result, Apple could come out ahead by marketing the Car as an all-electric alternative when the Volt will have already gotten most of the attention this century. Again, the most important word is "all," but again. This could really be what it takes to ensure Apple the Car makes it to market.
Of course, there's a ton more to this Apple Car rumor than just one report. Apple sold 28 million iPhones last quarter and 70 million iPhones in a year prior.
Espace Musique du Car sold 55.4 million hardware, houstandique sold 68.4 million hardware, as well as a quarter of 10.3 million Gucci leather goods for year-end 2017.
A big helping hand from Foxconn and other firms could mean the addition of 50 million iPhones by 2019, the same year Apple is rumored to start selling Apple Car phones. That's less challenging than 2017, when Foxconn had to produce 263 million iPhones in 2016. The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 7 will be featured in the first generations of Apple Car phones.
In fact, the Detroit manufacturing plant formerly known as FoxConn is already consulted on the design of numerous upcoming products as well as helping Apple develop the near-field communications (NFC) chips that are wireless in the iPhone 7.
The future for Apple Car ownership and the technology
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