{"id":26044,"date":"2016-05-25T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/apple-reportedly-looks-into-making-electric-car-charging-stations"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:44:39","slug":"apple-reportedly-looks-into-making-electric-car-charging-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/apple-reportedly-looks-into-making-electric-car-charging-stations","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly looks into making electric car charging stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Any electric car maker worth its salt knows that their vehicles are only as good as the charging stations<\/a> that keep them running\u2026 and that includes Apple, apparently. Reuters<\/em> sources understand<\/a> that Apple is asking charging station manufacturers about their technology for the sake of its oft-rumored electric car project<\/a>. It\u2019s not certain how deep the talks go or who\u2019s involved (the companies certainly aren\u2019t talking). However, NRG Energy<\/a> issued a vague response noting that it\u2019s talking to \u201cevery potential manufacturer of tomorrow.\u201d We wouldn\u2019t rule it out, then.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more evidence than that. An unnamed worldwide engineering company has already offered to help Apple build charging stations, Reuters<\/em> says. Meanwhile, Apple has publicly hired EV charging experts from BMW<\/a>, Georgia Tech<\/a> and Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If true, the approach is a logical fit for Apple. Part of Tesla\u2019s success in EVs comes from its willingness to build a network of high-speed charging stations \u2014 you\u2019re more likely to buy a Model S if you know that you can drive it long distances without spending hours waiting for a recharge. Apple may need that same kind of reassurance. And let\u2019s not forget that Apple\u2019s strategy revolves around controlling as much of the experience as possible. It only makes sense that the company would want optimized charging stations instead of leaving drivers to use generic stations that might not work as effectively.<\/p>\n

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Any electric car maker worth its salt knows that their vehicles are only as good as the charging stations that keep them running\u2026 and that includes Apple, apparently. Reuters sources understand that Apple is asking charging station manufacturers about their technology for the sake of its oft-rumored electric car project. It\u2019s not certain how deep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50412,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26044\/revisions\/50412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}