Apple’s iPhone Assembler (Foxconn)’s first electric SUV (Luxgen N7) has scored thousands of pre-orders, despite its release slated for the second half of 2023 and is rumored to be participating as a subcontracted assembler in the Apple Car project.
The last time we heard about the Apple Car project, it proved to be more popular than Tesla models with more than 200,000 prospective car owners, but it’s just a side hustle for Apple’s (R&D) department at the moment. Restrictions have been placed on a number of potential manufacturing partners, from Toyota to Porsche to Hyundai or Kia, with none reportedly agreeing to Apple’s strict requirements for a joint venture, fearing a loss of brand identity. So Apple decided to go it alone by subcontracting component suppliers and assemblers as it does for iPhone production, which is outsourced to Taiwan’s (Foxconn).
Foxconn, which meanwhile developed its EV joint venture on a common MIH (Mobility in Harmony) platform, has now unveiled its first electric vehicles built on it. According to local media reports, the first electric SUV (Luxgen N7) has already taken less than 10,000 pre-orders, although future owners will have to wait several more months to get their hands on it.
(Foxtron) an MIH project partner last year noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo even said earlier in the year that the team dubbed Project Titan that was allegedly tasked with developing the Apple Car Disbanded and its engineering members dispersed to other departments did not mean Apple had given up on its EV development, he cautioned, adding that a release was expected sometime after 2025.
Apple was recently rumored to have hired an ex-Lamborghini executive to work on its car, but companies like Foxconn can actually assemble Taiwan plans to open U.S. factories and eventually Help Apple meet EV subsidy requirements imposed on electric car makers under the Inflation Reduction Act, as Tesla’s battery suppliers are currently doing
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