Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] plans to start out manufacturing of an electrical automobile by 2024, doubtlessly leveraging breakthrough battery know-how from the tech large, Reuters reported Monday.

After apparently sidelining the event program typically known as “Venture Titan,” Apple now plans to construct a automobile that will likely be bought to customers, in accordance with the report, which cited two nameless sources accustomed to the matter.

A key characteristic will likely be a battery design that can “radically” cut back price and improve vary, the report mentioned. The so-called “monocell” design would characteristic larger-than-normal cells as the principle constructing blocks of a battery pack, reasonably than modules composed of many smaller cells, in accordance with the report.

Apple would possible make use of a contract producer to construct the automobile, simply it prefer it does with lots of its present merchandise, in accordance with the report, which additionally indicated the electric-car challenge wasn’t a achieved deal. Apple may nonetheless reduce its plans from a whole automobile to an autonomous-driving system, and pandemic-related delays may push the launch of any automobile again to 2025, sources mentioned.

This could be the primary Apple automobile false alarm. In 2015, it was reported that Apple had designated an electrical automobile  as a “dedicated challenge,” with a deliberate “ship date” of 2019. In 2018, Apple employed Tesla veteran Doug Subject to supervise the challenge, however he ended up laying off 190 people from the group in 2019.

Nonetheless, Apple was just lately granted a number of automotive patents—together with one for a system that detects cracks in windows, a sensor enclosure, and a holographic head-up display—indicating the corporate continues to be actively engaged on automobile tech. The corporate has been steadily accumulating automotive patents for the previous few years, together with some for steer-by-wire and suspension techniques in 2019.