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Apple Reportedly Teams With Kia to Produce Apple Car

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 04 2021, @02:58PM   
from the control-with-a-macbook-wheel dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:

Apple Reportedly Teams With Kia to Produce Apple Car:

Apple is investing about $3.6 billion in a car partnership with Kia Motors, according to a report out of South Korea.

[...] Apple will set up production with Kia and build Apple cars at the company's facility in Georgia, Korean newspaper DongA Ilbo reported, though the report did not cite sources for the information, Bloomberg reported.

The newspaper also said that the two companies could sign a deal on Feb. 17 and are planning to introduce Apple cars in 2024, with an initial target to produce 100,000 vehicles a year.

Last month, South Korean automaker Hyundai, an affiliate of Kia's, announced it was in preliminary talks with Apple on developing a self-driving car, before quickly backing away from the statement and saying it has received requests from a number of technology suitors to develop autonomous electric vehicles.

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• Re:I hope apple focuses on privacy with the design Re:I hope apple focuses on privacy with the design (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @06:44PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @06:44PM (#1109002)

  > You will notice in my post that I said an outsider like Trump and that we need to elect more outsiders.

  ...an outsider (but not already corrupt like Trump)...and we need to elect more outsiders.

  ftfy

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• Re:I hope apple focuses on privacy with the design Re:I hope apple focuses on privacy with the design (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:25PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:25PM (#1109065)

  You say Trump was corrupt. You know one thing he has done that has not enriched him? He donates his presidential salary.

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  • Re:I hope apple focuses on privacy with the design (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @01:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2021, @01:46PM (#1109289)

    I've heard Trump say that he donated his salary, but I want the rest of the story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify [wikipedia.org]

    Where is it donated? Does it go to a closely held foundation, where it benefits his family? Is it like many of his pledged donations that were never actually donated?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-promised-millions-to-charity-we-found-less-than-10000-over-7-years/2016/06/28/cbab5d1a-37dd-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html [washingtonpost.com]
    OR see archived version, https://archive.is/8WqsZ [archive.is]

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