On March 16, Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingji said on Twitter that the apple car research and development team that had been exposed for a long time had been disbanded for some time. If you want to achieve mass production of apple cars in 2025, you need to complete the team restructuring in 3 to 6 months.
Bloomberg's Mark Gullman has reported that Apple is accelerating its automotive project, with the goal of releasing an electric car with fully autonomous driving capabilities in 2025, with a foot pedal-free, steering-wheel-less design, meaning the car has at least advanced autonomous driving capabilities above L4 level. However, the Apple Car project has been frustrated one after another, and many car companies are reluctant to become Apple's parts suppliers, and the core components still do not have a quasi-letter.
Apple car supply is frustrated, the research and development team is also not good, in recent years has been exposed a number of project leaders have been job-hopping, only in 2021 there are 4 executives left, including the car project chief soho Ahn, the chief engineering project manager of the self-automation system Joe Bass, the "Project Titan" project leader Doug Field, etc., it can be said that the core of the team has basically run.
Executives have "fled" one after another, leaving kevin Lynch, the former head of Apple Watch software, and Christopher Moore, the president of autopilot software poached by Apple from Tesla. Now that it has been revealed that the Apple Car team has been disbanded for a while, I am afraid that we will not have the opportunity to see Apple Cars in 2025.
Recently, there is news that Foxconn and Luxshare Precision are the preferred manufacturers for the production of Apple Car, Luxun Precision insiders responded that the company does have a certain business foundation in the car industry chain, but due to confidentiality agreements, the specific details can not be revealed. Xiao Lei believes that Apple has only temporarily shelved its car-building plans, or shifted its focus to automatic driving and car-machine systems.
With Apple's strong software ecological foundation, it is fully capable of providing solutions such as car design, automatic driving, and vehicle system like Huawei, and the production of the whole vehicle is handed over to car companies or other suppliers with car manufacturing capabilities, which is relatively better than plunging into the road of building the whole vehicle.
In Xiao Lei's view, Apple car is like Faraday Future, the project was established early, but for various reasons, it was left behind by the later new energy vehicle forces, the current Apple Car team disbanded, the future of Apple Cars is even less optimistic, and now Faraday FF91 has begun to announce the mass production landing, Apple will keep up as soon as possible.