May 25, 2016
YOUR NEXT CAR WILL BE A VOLT:
Are Ultra-Fast Charging Stations Apple's Big Electric Vehicle Play? (Liane Yvkoff, 5/25/16, Forbes))
Could Apple AAPL +1.77% be trying to reinvent electric car charging? Reports suggest the company that dissed standard Micro-USB cables for its expensive Lightning cable may be developing a charging system for its hush-hush autonomous electric car.Reuters reports that Apple is talking with several electric car charging station companies about their underlying technology. However, no company would talk in detail about the discussions, and it's not clear if the Cupertino-based company is working on a proprietary vehicle charging technology similar to Tesla's Supercharger network or something that will play nice with all chargers. A lack of charging station infrastructure is just one of the obstacles to electric car adoption. Another is long charging times. Could Apple be working on a car battery charging solution to solve both problems?
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 25, 2016 6:49 PM