Apple may have grown weary of negotiating with today's automakers to make their Apple Car, and build it without the help of any of them. It may end up being made by Foxconn, with which it gets along like a charm and has been assembling devices for Apple for many years, and the other would be Magna, the world's largest outsourcing car manufacturer.
Apple is used to negotiating with manufacturers in a dominant position. "I want you to make this for me, at this price, if not, I order it from someone else," is his motto. When he began to establish contacts with the big car manufacturers to manufacture his dreamed Apple Car, he saw that his position was no longer the dominant one, and he did not like that at all.
Bloomberg just published a report where he explains that Apple has reached out to several traditional automakers in recent months, including Hyundai y Nissan. However, those talks have proven to be unsuccessful, as car manufacturers are quite reluctant to build a vehicle 'on demand'.
While Apple has traditionally worked with different manufacturers for their products devices such as iPhones, iPads and Macs for sale under the exclusive Apple brand. However, automakers have proven less willing to enter that war, and become what amounts to being a manufacturer hired by a third brand to make "a whim" of a company like Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
Last month I already commented on the noticia that Foxconn He is going to start making electric cars for Henrik Fisker, and while he was doing it, he was thinking that he could also be a candidate to make the Apple Car. Foxconn and Apple have been working together for many years and they understand each other wonderfully.
Magna would make it long before Foxconn
Magna has many car assembly plants around the world.
The other candidate would be a car manufacturer Magna. Apple first entered into talks to make its Apple Car project a reality with Magna five years ago, when the Cupertino people already suspected they could design their electric vehicle. Bloomberg explains that Magna has a lot of experience building custom cars, assembling luxury cars for companies like BMW, Daimler AG and Jaguar Land Rover.
It all depends on the rush Apple is in. Magna's option is the most logical and fastest to run. She has a lot of experience in the manufacture of vehicles, and is very used to making luxury models to order for different brands, meeting the demands of her clients.
With Foxconn Apple has a greater "feeling", but it is a melon to open. He has never assembled cars. It already has an electric motorcycle assembly plant, the «Evoke«, And now he is going to build a new plant to assemble the new model ordered by Fisker. If you choose Foxconn, it will undoubtedly take longer to see the Apple Car on the street, and not a simple render on the screens like now.