Foxconn—the Taiwanese company best known for contract manufacturing of the Apple iPhone—announced Friday that it had developed an open platform for electric cars. The company also said it ...

Major Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group is injecting 600 million yuan (US$82 million) into a new electric-vehicle (EV) battery plant in Zhengzhou, capital of central Chinese province Henan ...

Foxconn doesn't build cars, it builds the iPhone. But the Taiwanese firm wants ... "open platform" for future EVs and promised big-time battery breakthroughs in just under four years.