Editor'southward accept: S Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Company has confirmed that information technology is in talks with Apple with regards to building an electric vehicle. At this point, it'south anyone's estimate as to whether or not something volition materialize in the 2022s only given the contempo success of Tesla, Apple could very well feel this is an opportunity likewise big to refuse.

"We empathize that Apple is in word with a multifariousness of global automakers, including Hyundai Motor," a Hyundai spokesperson recently told CNBC. The representative added that the discussions are in an early phase and thus, nothing has been decided still.

Share value in Hyundai popped more than thirty percent on the news.

The automaker later released an updated statement that reads equally follows: "We've been receiving requests of potential cooperation from diverse companies regarding evolution of democratic driving EVs, but no decisions have been fabricated equally discussions are in early on phase."

The path to putting an Apple-branded vehicle on the road has been long and winding, and was one of the hottest topics in tech circles in the mid-2010s.

From our vantage signal, however, the projection seemed riddled with dubiety and a lack of direction. Was information technology going to be an bodily motorcar, or just self-driving software, or something else entirely? Did Apple want to partner with an established automaker or perchance learn i outright? All of these and more than were possibilities at one bespeak co-ordinate to the rumor mill.

Chatter of an Apple car died down in the latter half of the decade, merely picking back up tardily terminal twelvemonth.

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