Apple has found a good companion, to produce its first car in United States

Smart cars are definitely a heavy enough product. With their strength in software and hardware, it will certainly not be bad if they enter the market.

According to the report, Hyundai Motor Group is arranging cooperation between its Kia brand and Apple in the production of electric vehicles, but this report did not cite any sources.

As per the report, if Hyundai Motor Group and Apple agree to cooperate on this business, Kia’s plant in Georgia, USA will be responsible for producing Apple cars.

Hyundai Motor, another brand of the automobile group, may not be suitable for cooperation with Apple, because the company has a strong willingness to develop its own brand of electric vehicles.

Apple is indeed promoting the whole vehicle internally, and there is an acceleration. Specifically, Apple has asked the corresponding suppliers to start preparing the parts required for the new product, and the new car has also begun to be on the road taking the test.

It is not clear which company will produce the Apple-branded cars, but sources said that the company is expected to rely on manufacturing partners for production.

As for the production capacity of new products, it is expected that the maximum number of vehicles in the early stage will be 100,000.

A person familiar with the matter added that Apple may still decide to narrow the scope of the ‘Project Titan’ to autonomous driving systems and integrate the systems it develops with cars produced by traditional automakers instead of producing and selling self-driving cars. Branded cars.

Additionally, Apple has decided to obtain some elements of the autonomous driving system from external partners, including lidar sensors that can help cars obtain a three-dimensional view of the road.

Along with this, the cars they develop may be furnished with multiple lidar sensors for scanning. Different distances. According to Apple’s usual pricing strategy, if this new product is launched, it must be the rhythm of sky-high prices.

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