Home > News

Taiwan Rumor Says Apple Car Will Be Released in September

By Laura Tucker
Apple Car September Featured

It’s known that Apple has been working on some type of autonomous, electric vehicle just as long as the other tech and auto companies were, as far back as 2015, at least. It certainly seemed like it was on the backburner as other companies seemed to be much further ahead, but now credible rumors are saying that the Apple Car will be released in September.

History of the Apple Car

2015 is just the year it was confirmed that there was an Apple Car in the works. Assumably, the company was working on something of the sort before that, when it was revealed it was referred to as “Project Titan.”

Apple has even been doing road testing. However, what they were testing was not a new autonomous car – it was legacy cars retrofitted with the Apple autonomous system.

Apple Car September Blurred

Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, has said previously that he thinks that the intersection of electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and ride-sharing was an interesting place to be. This leaves the question of what type of car the Apple Car will be, whether it will be a personal vehicle or a ride-sharing vehicle. Since known testing was on legacy cars, it’s also not known if the project has moved on to a full car or whether it will be just an autonomous system that will be used in other cars.

New Rumors

The Chinese-language The Economic Daily News published news that was reported by MacDailyNews. It mentioned “Taiwanese auto parts factories, such as Heda (1536), BizLink-KY, Heqin, and Tomita,” then further said, “The key supply chain in Taiwan confirmed that Apple expects to release the Apple Car in September next year, at least two years earlier than the original plan.”

Just like there are many people who are fearful of trusting the coronavirus vaccine that was rushed out, please are going to feel similarly about shaving two years off the timeline for an autonomous car.

Apple Car September Traffic

Of note here is the movement of factories in Taiwan. New auto parts factories are being built, existing ones are being relocated, and new production lines are being added to existing factories. The supply chain is saying all the movement is for the Apple Car.

While there are many questions surrounding the truthfulness of the timeline and whether Apple is looking at an entire car or a system that will go in other cars, it’s believed that Apple did at least order parts from the Taiwanese auto parts manufacturers. And that is enough of a development on its own.

We had predicted that autonomous cars would get smarter in 2020, and if the Apple Car truly is ready to hit the road, it seems we were right.

Subscribe to our newsletter!

Our latest tutorials delivered straight to your inbox

Laura Tucker Avatar
Laura Tucker
Laura has spent more than 20 years writing news, reviews, and op-eds, with the majority of those years as an editor as well. She has exclusively used Apple products for the past 35 years. In addition to writing and editing at MTE, she also runs the site’s sponsored review program.

Read next

When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.
From below of blue starry sky over radio telescope and trees with leaves
The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which hydrogen atoms vibrate across the universe, because Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison had argued years earlier that any species trying to be found would broadcast on that channel — and then, for 72 seconds, something did.
In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe
Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889, setting the pension age at 70 after years of fighting socialists with bans, laws, and a promise few workers would live long enough to use
When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.
When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.
A contemplative scene with two scientists in a vintage laboratory setting.
When Harvard astronomer Cecilia Payne submitted her 1925 doctoral thesis arguing that the Sun was made almost entirely of hydrogen, the field’s senior figure Henry Norris Russell talked her into adding a line calling the result ‘almost certainly not real,’ and then published the same conclusion himself four years later to widespread acclaim.
When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.