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Apple worked with a Chinese carmaker for years to design a battery system for its now - cancel machine project .
That’saccordingto Bloomberg , which reports that Apple was cooperate with BYD Co. , a Shenzhen - base car company , to grow battery using lithium iron phosphate ( LFP ) cell . Apple contributed engineering expertise , specifically in areas like heating management and advanced electric battery clique , while BYD supplied its manufacture resources and proprietary LFP engineering .
The battery was intended to be good than most EV battery at the time , per Bloomberg , and longer range .
Applecannedits plans for a car back in February after reportedly spending roughly $ 1 billion a year on the project since 2014 . While it ultimately did n’t arrive to realization , the effort was n’t a total failure ; allot to Bloomberg , battery insights reap from the car labor helped other Apple teams with the ontogenesis of theVision ProandNeural Enginechip .