Elon Musk is not afraid of the electric vehicle from Apple: the competition will be good for the industry

Elon Musk has always maintained that competition is beneficial to the market electric cars and not waives his words, even when it comes to confrontation with the ruthless corporation like Apple. In his interview on BBC , Musk said that "the efforts of the manufacturer of the iPhone is the creation of the electric vehicle industry will expand "but also added that" Apple's ambitions in this direction were not a secret. " To the question "whether he knew that Apple is building its own electric car," Musk said that "quite difficult to hide their plans, when you hire for their implementation over a thousand engineers».

Apple is not to advertise their plans to build an electric car, but as they say, "murder will not hide." Back in February of last year The Financial Times reports , that Apple hires automotive experts to work in his "top secret research lab." The next The Wall Street Journal said , that Apple is working on its own electric cars, and the project code-named« Titan ». Based on the many rumors and evaluation specialists, Apple will introduce its own electric car to the public 2019 .

This date means that Tesla have a few more years in order to submit its more or less massive crossover Model 3 , in general, to strengthen its position in this market and prepare for a "meeting" in the face of rival Apple. According to Elon Musk, now is the time for a change for the automotive industry, as in "electro-race" including other manufacturers, and who in the end will be at the top is difficult to predict. "Two major revolutions in the transport sector are the electrification and automation," Musk told the BBC. "These two innovations have their origins directly to the assembly line and introduced at the same time."

Source: geektimes.ru/post/269068/