UPDATE The technology company Apple is working on an electric car. That report different media based on anonymous sources.
Apple would a team of several hundred people have put on the secret project that, according to the American business newspaper The Wall Street Journal codenamed “Titan” has. The design being worked somewhere in California, resembles that of a minivan.
The leadership of the project would be in the hands of Steve Zadesky, previously to the design of the iPod and iPhone cooperated. Zadesky is an Apple veteran, but was once employed by the US carmaker Ford.
An Apple spokesman declined to give opposite the American Bloomberg comment on the reports.
Apple plays for years with the idea to develop a car. Marketing CEO Apple’s Phil Schiller said two years ago as a witness in court over patents against Samsung that building a car is already a topic of conversation was the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
Google and Tesla
Other technology companies in Silicon Valley are also working on it. Google is working on a self-propelled vehicle and Tesla Motors is a manufacturer of electric cars now an established name. More than 150 employees of Tesla previously worked for Apple.
In turn, Apple would try to attract Tesla employees by offering them include higher salaries, founder and CEO Elon Musk told recently told Bloomberg. “Apple is trying very hard to recruit Tesla,” he said. “But until now they are actually very few people recruited.”
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