Apple’s team of employees working on the company’s very first electric vehicle has been dissolved temporarily, but must be reorganized within the next three to six months in order to meet the 2025 mass production goals, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said with a tweet on Tuesday.
The company’s EV plans have reportedly faced numerous setbacks already since its advent way back in 2014 (via MacRumors). More recently, in November 2021, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple was accelerating work on its EV, aiming for one with full self-driving capabilities. He also said that Apple was aiming for a 2025 launch but that could be delayed due to development challenges.
The Apple Car project team has been dissolved for some time. The reorganization within the next three to six months is necessary to achieve the goal of mass production by 2025.
— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) March 15, 2022
Kevin Lynch, Apple’s VP of technology, has been said to be reassigned to head the Apple Car project in September 2021. This comes following another report that said that John Giannandrea was overseeing development in 2021, indicating that there has been a change in leadership.
Foxconn and Luxshare are rumored to be the top candidates to produce the Apple Car, according to a report by DigiTimes Asia. The two firms are two key manufacturers for Apple products and have already entered the EV market, aiming for a strong manufacturing capability by the time Apple is done with the development stage.
Apple Car rumors have been doing rounds for years now. Although it is not expected to debut anytime soon, it looks like the company is finally speeding things up to meet the 2025 deadline.
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