Apple supplier Foxconn unveils electric vehicle prototypes

Foxconn is aiming to build clients’ electric vehicles from the chassis up, with no plans to sell vehicles under its own brand.

Workers in the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province in 2010. Picture: STR/AFP/GettyImages

Apple supplier Foxconn took the wraps off two new electric vehicles, prototypes that embody the iPhone maker’s ambitions of carving out a slice of a market led by the likes of Tesla. 

The company, whose main listed arm is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, unveiled the Model B crossover SUV and Model V pickup truck at its event in Taipei.