Apple has lost another high-profile Apple Car engineer, but the launch is still scheduled for 2025.

The apple car is likely to be marketed as a very high-end model or significantly higher than the standard electric vehicle.

Updated on January 25, 2022 15:10 PM by Anna P

Apple is now rumored to be working on a fully autonomous self-driving vehicle that will not require user invention to drive. The apple car is likely to be marketed as a very high-end model or significantly higher than the standard electric vehicle.

There are no more secrets over here!!!

The Apple car project has shifted and changed multiple times over the last several years due to internal strife and leadership issues. From 2016 rumors suggested Apple had shelved plans for a car and by 2020 it back again. It is a highly ambitious project and rumors indicate that Apple wants to design a car with no steering wheel and no pedals.

Apple's Invention Heroes

Apple's AI and machine learning chief John Ginnaradia is heading up the Apple Car project, and Kevin Lynch, known for his work on the Apple Watch, has also joined the car team and is said to be largely responsible for Apple's push toward a self-driving car.

Apple has no experience with car manufacturing, it needs partners to produce and also Apple said that working on securing partnership in the automobile industry which discussed with Hyundai and other companies.

Are you curious about what will happen next?

The Apple Car has been described as Apple's "next star product" with Apple able to offer "better integration of hardware, software, and services" than potential competitors in the automotive market. The Apple Car is likely to be marketed as a "very high-end" model or "significantly higher" than a standard electric vehicle.

Design and Self-driving Capabilities

Apple was pursuing two-vehicle paths. One with limited self-driving capabilities and a second with full self-driving functionality, and Apple have now decided to pursue the second path under the leadership of Kevin Lynch.Some of the interesting facts in Apple Car are:

No steering Wheel or Pedals

Apple wants to design a vehicle that does not have a steering wheel or pedals, with an interior focused on hands-free driving. Apple may not be able to remove the steering wheel, however, as it could be useful to have available in an emergency.

Chassis

Kuo has said that Apple's initial vehicle chassis could be based on Hyundai's E-GMP Electric Vehicle (BEV) platform, but it is not yet clear if that will pan out because the company may not be able to establish a partnership with Hyundai.

Infotainment System

It has a large i-pad touch screen in the middle of the vehicle which was dissimilar from the design of Tesla vehicles. Users can also interact with the control panel with Apple devices and services.

Processor

The processor that's in development for the car was created by Apple's silicon engineering group, which has also created the processors for the M1 Macs, iPhones, and other devices. Bloomberg describes this chip as the most advanced component that Apple has designed internally.

Safety and charging battery

Safety is a major focal point in the design of the Apple Car. Apple wants to create a safer vehicle than companies like Tesla or Waymo, and so engineers are building redundancies and backup systems that will kick in to avoid driving system failures.

Apple is developing a new battery design that has the potential to "radically" reduce the cost of batteries and increase the vehicle's range. Apple is creating a "mono cell" design that will bulk up the individual battery cells and free up space inside the battery pack by removing pouches and modules that hold battery materials.

All these are the features of Apple car and Apple to at least confirm the existence of the Apple Car project at some point in 2022 or 2023, especially as the company should begin testing a prototype one or two years before rolling out the production model.