Apple can release its own passenger electric car by 2024. According to Reuters with reference to sources, the machine will receive an autopilot system and a “breakthrough battery technology”.

Rumors that Apple is developing its own electric car appeared a few years ago, and then it was reported that the company abandoned this project and focused on the development of automobile software, which automakers could use. Now Apple, apparently, has returned to the idea of creating her own electric car. However, the details of the updated project are still unknown, as well as the exact terms for its implementation: the company expects to launch the production of an electric car by 2024, but it is possible that this will happen later in connection with the pandemia of coronavirus. It is also possible that the company again narrows the project before the development of software for autonomous driving, writes The Verge .

The report also notes that Apple uses in the project the development of third -party companies, including lidars that allow unmanned vehicles to "see" surrounding objects. As for the batteries, according to rumors, Apple intends to use the technology of one cell, which provides an increased battery capacity with the same total size compared to batteries consisting of many cells. Potentially, such a technology can provide an increased range at lower production costs.

Apple refused to comment on new rumors about the project.

Recall that Dyson worked on its own electric car for several years. As a result, engineers created a prototype of an electric crossover, but the project was closed due to unprofitability.

Apple can release its own electric car by 2024