Can Foxconn be shortlisted for apple Apple Car oem?

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Apple's car-making plans have gone through several rounds of fermentation, but the latest news has been confusing. One thing is more certain that Apple must need a foundry company, of course, or a cooperative company, rather than building its own car factory, which may be a different development model from Tesla's gigafactory. It's just that in the process of finding a partner or a foundry business, the progress is not very smooth. Although Apple is now the world's most valuable technology company, and its market influence in the smartphone and mobile terminal markets is unique, in the field of new cars, Apple has no advantage, far from Tesla, and even compared with traditional car manufacturers, it does not have its own advantages. This is also one of the reasons why Apple is so slow to decide when seeking partners, right?

Has Apple's Apple Car plans accelerated?

The market has been rumoring the latest developments of Apple car manufacturing, of course, mainly with some traditional car companies in contact with the process, the potential development plan is to cooperate, through cooperation to accelerate the progress of Apple car manufacturing. According to South Korean media reports, Apple recently sent people to South Korea and met with some manufacturers with experience in the production of large-scale electronic components, which is also Apple's second large-scale visit to South Korea. It is reported that Apple and SK and LG two battery companies discussed the supply of batteries.

Moreover, the news said that Apple has formulated a policy of directly developing and managing Apple's car battery materials. It is expected to complete the selection of Apple's car suppliers within this year and begin full development. As we all know, as early as 2014, Apple launched a car-making plan code-named "Titan", intending to launch a new energy vehicle that can compete with Tesla, and Apple also recruited power testing and hybrid system engineers from companies such as Chrysler, Tesla, Andd to form its own team. However, the turnover rate is also relatively high, indicating that in terms of car building, Apple's advantages are not obvious, and the attraction and residency of talents are not very tempting.

Cook once said, "I think in the future software will become an increasingly important component in the car." Autonomous driving will also become even more important. Apple is focused on self-driving systems, which are very important core technologies and may be one of the most difficult AI projects Apple has undertaken. "This move is believed that Apple may be more concerned about providing a platform, and it is not strong in its desire to build a car in person." Moreover, the speed of Apple's car project has become slow.

In recent years, it has been rumored that Apple has contacted South Korea's Hyundai Group to produce self-driving electric vehicles at an engine plant in Georgia, or the two sides may invest in a new plant that plans to reach an annual production capacity of 100,000 units in 2024 and a final annual production capacity of 400,000 units. Kuo has also predicted that Apple will adopt a modern E-GMP pure electric platform, and may also cooperate with GM. However, it was later lost. The market generally believes that Apple will not be deeply involved in traditional automobile manufacturing, after all, the gross profit margin in this field is low, more may find OEM or label production, and the focus should be on the field of intelligent driving, which can combine its own advantages.

Can Foxconn be shortlisted for apple Apple Car oem?

Since it will not personally build a car, nor will it build its own manufacturing plant, then Apple will find partners or foundry companies, just like in the current mobile phone market to find Foxconn-based foundry companies, in this regard, Apple has its own advantages and experience, the operation is more handy, and can avoid heavy asset investment.

The market believes that Apple may choose Foxconn to produce automotive products for its OEM. The cooperation between Apple and Foxconn has made each other have a great tacit understanding. Moreover, Foxconn is also accelerating the layout of new energy vehicles. Taiwan media also said that Foxconn and Luxun Precision are expected to assemble Apple Car for Apple, and NINGDE Times and BYD may supply Apple with batteries for domestic models. South Korea's LG Energy Solution, SK On, and Samsung SDI may supply Apple Cars to the U.S. market. In terms of battery supply, CATL, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and BYD are undoubtedly the four giants, and they are all likely to supply batteries for Apple. Apple expects to opt for ternary lithium batteries with higher energy density.

The existence of variables or car assembly, recently, Luxshare Precision and Chery Automobile cooperation, this move is considered to be in order to lay out the future in the car assembly can get opportunities, the market speculation That Luxshare Precision's drunken intention may be to hope to cooperate with Chery to obtain assembly orders for Apple cars. Chery has many years of experience in automobile assembly and production qualifications, which can make up for the lack of Luxshare precision.

For foundry cars, the current smart phone OEMs are full of confidence, Foxconn founder and former chairman Terry Gou said in internal meetings many times: "Since we can build iPhones, why can't we build electric vehicles?" It's just a four-wheeled iPhone. "It can be said that it is also full of confidence in the OEM Apple Apple Car business. Of course, in the end, it depends on Apple's own opinion.

Will the concept art of Apple's Apple Car come out this year?

The market predicts that Apple will launch a conceptual blueprint for the Apple Car this year. It is reported that there will be a Japanese three electric knife for Apple to make a design. Of course, it is unknown whether it will be announced in the end, but if the concept map is out, perhaps the intention of building a car to speed up is not running.

Although, we don't know in what form the Apple Car will appear. All the tests that came back from the market about the Apple Car were to install Apple's self-driving system on other modified cars for testing. Whether Apple Car will also develop a complete car has also become confusing, whether to launch a platform first, to provide service application support in autonomous driving, or to launch a complete vehicle, it is estimated that Cook has not yet made up his mind, right?

The market also believes that Apple still applies the style of cooperation with suppliers in the era of consumer electronics to build cars. In the field of consumer electronics, Apple has a strong desire for control and high standards over the core technology and work efficiency of suppliers. Business Week has reported that compared with other computer manufacturers, Apple is notoriously difficult to serve in the electronics industry in Taiwan. If we continue to cooperate in car building, perhaps only Foxconn can cope with it. However, in the mainland market, Luxshare Precision's series of measures are actually self-evident in the meaning of drunkenness.