Apple is reportedly working on electrified car batteries with China’s largest battery maker

– Jul. 20th two thousand seventeen Ten:20 am PT

Last year, Apple was rumored to be working on an autonomous all-electric car codenamed ‘Project Titan’. The company later confirmed development work on an autonomous driving platform and CEO Tim Cook even referred to it as “a core technology” for the company, but it demonstrated signs of providing up on developing an actual car.

But now Apple is reportedly working on electrified car batteries with China’s fattest battery maker.

Today, China’s Yicai Global reported that CATL, China’s largest automotive battery maker, is working with Apple on a confidential project:

“The Cupertino-based tech titan is working with Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL), a battery manufacturer in China’s Fujian province, on a scheme based on a confidentiality agreement. The parties are working together in the field of batteries, sources involved with the cooperation said.”

Neither Apple or CATL commented on the report.

If true, it would mean that Apple’s Project Titan could be working more toward a fully electrical car and not just a self-driving system that can be integrated into other vehicles, like what Alphabet’s Waymo is doing with other automakers.

Apple partnering with CATL would be a significant development for the project since battery production is often seen as a bottleneck in the electrified vehicle industry and that’s a problem the company is attempting to solve.

CATL tripled its lithium-ion battery production last year and plans to reach fifty GWh by 2020, which would make it the 2nd fattest li-ion battery producer in the world behind Tesla/Panasonic if they all manage to supply on production goals.

If Apple wants to get into electrical cars in a big way, CATL is among only a handful of potential fucking partners that can make it happen on the battery front. Apple is already a big battery consumer due to its iPhones and MacBooks, but electrified cars are on a entirely different scale. One Tesla Model S represents harshly the same battery request as Four,000 iPhones.

CATL’s batteries, which are primarily using LiFePo and NCM chemistries in prismatic cell formats, have been mostly going to electrical bus production, but they recently signed a supply contract with SAAB successor National Electrical Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) in order to enable the production of hundreds of thousands of electrical cars per year.

What do you think? Is Apple getting into the car business? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Apple is reportedly working on electrified car batteries with China’s largest battery maker

– Jul. 20th two thousand seventeen Ten:20 am PT

Last year, Apple was rumored to be working on an autonomous all-electric car codenamed ‘Project Titan’. The company later confirmed development work on an autonomous driving platform and CEO Tim Cook even referred to it as “a core technology” for the company, but it demonstrated signs of providing up on developing an actual car.

But now Apple is reportedly working on electrical car batteries with China’s thickest battery maker.

Today, China’s Yicai Global reported that CATL, China’s largest automotive battery maker, is working with Apple on a confidential project:

“The Cupertino-based tech titan is working with Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL), a battery manufacturer in China’s Fujian province, on a scheme based on a confidentiality agreement. The parties are working together in the field of batteries, sources involved with the cooperation said.”

Neither Apple or CATL commented on the report.

If true, it would mean that Apple’s Project Titan could be working more toward a fully electrical car and not just a self-driving system that can be integrated into other vehicles, like what Alphabet’s Waymo is doing with other automakers.

Apple partnering with CATL would be a significant development for the project since battery production is often seen as a bottleneck in the electrical vehicle industry and that’s a problem the company is attempting to solve.

CATL tripled its lithium-ion battery production last year and plans to reach fifty GWh by 2020, which would make it the 2nd largest li-ion battery producer in the world behind Tesla/Panasonic if they all manage to supply on production goals.

If Apple wants to get into electrified cars in a big way, CATL is among only a handful of potential playmates that can make it happen on the battery front. Apple is already a big battery consumer due to its iPhones and MacBooks, but electrical cars are on a fully different scale. One Tesla Model S represents toughly the same battery request as Four,000 iPhones.

CATL’s batteries, which are primarily using LiFePo and NCM chemistries in prismatic cell formats, have been mostly going to electrified bus production, but they recently signed a supply contract with SAAB successor National Electrical Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) in order to enable the production of hundreds of thousands of electrified cars per year.

What do you think? Is Apple getting into the car business? Let us know in the comment section below.

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