Nuked Reuters reports that Apple is pursuing production of a passenger vehicle by 2024 as well as the creation of self-driving systems and a’breakthrough battery technology’.
There have been rumors of Apple developing a car going back to 2015. But in 2016, the project was scaled down significantly, with development of a full car being scrapped.
Reuters says 2024 is the production goal for an Apple-made passenger vehicle, though it could be pushed back’into 2025 or beyond’. There is still a chance Apple could scale its efforts back to just autonomous driving tech.
Apple’s battery technology reportedly relies on a’monocell’ design that allows more capacity to be fit into the overall battery unit. Reuters reports that it could allow for’potentially longer range’ and lower costs.
Apple declined to comment on whether Apple is planning to manufacture a self-driving car. There are no true self-driving vehicles available today. Some cars offer advanced driver assistance driving in certain situations.
Apple handed control of its self-driving car project to John Giannandrea. Giannandrea was brought on board in 2018 to work on Siri. Giannandrea previously worked at Google as head of search and artificial intelligence.
