Apple Car: Talks With Hyundai And Kia Are Off The Table

After the rumours about the electric car from Apple intensified in the last few weeks, the first car manufacturers are now denying the possible partnerships with the iPhone inventor. The talks between Apple, Hyundai and Kia have apparently been paused.

The rumour mill in the discussion about the electric Apple Car has never been as united as this year. In the last few weeks, there have been signs of close cooperation between Apple and the South Korean Hyundai Motor Group, to which Kia has also been part since 1998. But now the cooperation seems to be off the table for the time being, as the industry and news services Bloomberg and Reuters report. It should be heard from both brands that they are ” not in talks with Apple about the development of autonomous vehicles “.

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So far, experts such as the Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo assumed that Apple Hyundai’s so-called E-GMP (Electric-Global Modular Platform) would be used to drive its future electric cars and that Kia in the US state of Georgia would use it for production could be responsible. A few days ago was also reported that Apple was willing to up to 3.6 billion US dollars in the automotive group for in-ves-tie-ren, to secure appropriate production capacities. The talk was of 100,000 vehicles per year with a scaling option to 400,000 e-cars.

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Meanwhile, Apple is supposed to get in contact with other automakers to make its plans a reality by 2024. The German group Volkswagen, among others, which has opened its modular electric drive kit (MEB) to third-party companies, would be open to partnerships. Last year, a contract was signed between VW and Ford that welded the car manufacturers together in the field of light commercial vehicles and electric cars. It remains to be seen whether Apple will also consider cooperation with Volkswagen.