Under the code name Titan, the apple-bitten company has been working for years on a project that clearly aims to be a new rival to Tesla.
Apple has even hired former engineers of the electric motor giant to ensure that its EV vehicles live up to the expectations of the company’s fans. And now it seems that Apple has managed to complete a large part of one of the most important processors.
Mark Gurman reported that this processor is essential for his Titan project. And thanks to this progress, they have been able to reduce the time to market their Apple electric car by 4 years.
In this way, Apple's electric car is expected to arrive in 2025. And beware, in terms of design, there are some very interesting surprises. It should be noted that the source of this leak is a reference in everything related to the Apple universe, so we can give enough truth to this published information.
Apparently, Apple's processor division is developing a processor that will be the most advanced component ever developed for this project. The idea is for the American company to start testing this chip in its California test vehicle fleet. Its a great incentive? Gurman reported that Apple's electric cars will have "stronger security systems than those offered by Tesla and Waymo."
Now, the goal of the Titan project is to keep the steering wheel of electric cars. Yes, you read that right: Apple Car will be a fully autonomous vehicle. In this way, it will have a very large cabin, as well as iPad-type touch screens, to provide a very similar interface to iOS or iPad OS.
Of course, at the moment Apple has not decided on the business model of this vehicle. On the one hand, the company wants to offer an alternative to the fleet of fully autonomous Uber or Lyft vehicles. Although it is likely to be a consumer model that any Apple Car user can purchase.
Finally, it should be noted that Apple's electric car will have a CCS standard that can be charged at most high-speed public charging stations.
Everything that surrounds the electric car that Apple is apparently working on is confusing. Some fairly powerful American media outlets, such as CNBC and Bloomberg television, have been assuming for several months that the Cupertino company is working on the development of an electric car.
However, in mid-September, there was some shadow of doubt about the Titan project, which is apparently the code name Apple uses to identify the electric car of the future. Dough Field, a former Tesla CEO who led this development, left the apple business and signed with Ford.
Field is not the first Titan project-related manager to leave Apple’s level. Steve Zadesky left the company before him, a renowned mechanical engineer from the Ford quarry. These incidents seemed to reflect something wrong with this project. At least they sensed some instability. Maybe that's why, according to Bloomberg, Apple has accelerated the development of its electric car to strengthen its commitment.
Field’s successor is Kevin Lynch, a veteran in-house engineer who led the development of the Apple Watch, among others. We know that this technician has been in charge of this division for Apple for just over two months, but the information that is taking shape in the last few hours claims that this company has stepped on the accelerator to put its electric car on the street in 2025.
However, as we can guess, this date is not fixed and may change if this brand needs more time to develop the autonomous driving technology of this car.