Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn unveils three prototype electric vehicles

(Pocket-lint) - iPhone spouse Foxconn has pulled backmost the curtain connected 3 prototype electric vehicles, a measurement that bolsters its credentials arsenic a imaginable subordinate successful Apple's tight-lipped Project Titan.

The trio, which comprises an SUV, sedan and a commercialized bus, volition unrecorded nether the Foxtron marque - the associated task betwixt Foxconn and Taiwanese automaker Yulon Motor.

However, they won't beryllium disposable to bargain conscionable yet. The sedan volition beryllium sold to an unspecified automaker extracurricular of Taiwan successful the coming years, portion the SUV exemplary volition deed the marketplace successful 2023 nether 1 of Yulon's brands.

For now, these are connection pieces that showcase what the task is susceptible of successful the EV market.

With Foxconn being the largest assembler of Apple's iPhone, though, it's imaginable that this propulsion into the car manufacture could assistance it go a cardinal enactment if Apple continues to prosecute its enactment wrong the field. 

It's not the lone determination it's made this year, either. Back successful February, it was reported that Foxconn would assistance physique EVs for Fisker - perchance successful the US - and, successful precocious September, the institution shelled retired $230 cardinal for an car works successful Ohio from Lordstown Motors.

"We are nary longer the caller kid successful town. We person gradually built an EV proviso concatenation and showcased our EV hardware," said Young Liu, president of Foxconn’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, erstwhile unveiling the 3 vehicles successful Tapei.

Liu besides noted that the institution is aiming to marque its EV concern a NT$1 trillion ($35.78 billion) concern by 2026, though immoderate imaginable statement with Apple is apt conscionable arsenic acold distant into the future.

Though the Cupertino company's car task remains 1 of the astir anticipated advancements successful the industry, precise small accusation is really acknowledged arsenic accurate.

This unveiling from Foxconn, and its continued propulsion into the EV market, is made much absorbing due to the fact that of its ties to Apple successful different areas, but that's each it is for now. For thing much factual than tenuous links similar this, we'll apt beryllium waiting a fewer much years astatine least.

Writing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 19 October 2021.