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The technology company Apple is working on an electric car. That writes the Wall Street Journal on the basis of anonymous insiders. According to the American newspaper business, the company has hundreds of employees employed on the project, code-named “Titan”. That would be an electric vehicle design that looks like a minivan.
The project is led by Steve Zadesky, an Apple veteran who previously to the design of the iPod and the iPhone worked. Before his time at Apple Zadesky was working at the US carmaker Ford.
Except Zadesky Apple has attracted several workers in the automotive industry . Thus, in recent months include the head of the R & amp; D facility contracted by Mercedes-Benz in Silicon Valley, the Financial Times reported Friday. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric car maker Tesla showed earlier to Bloomberg that Apple is trying to lure Apple Tesla employees with a one-time bonus of $ 250,000 and a salary increase of 60%.
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The fact that Apple is working on an electric car, does not necessarily mean it will sell electric cars. The technology brand do more investigating new technologies and products. Sometimes even made several prototypes, without the product finally goes on sale.
In the case of the electric car would be much technologies like advanced batteries and specific electronics can also be used in iPhones and iPads from Apple. Still, the size of the project and indicate the experience of the people involved that Apple is developing the electric car takes very seriously.
An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the message.
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