The electric Apple iCar will release the Austrian Magna Steyr Bashny.Net

Not managed leading technical experts how to speculate on the subject of design and technical characteristics of the future electric Apple iCar (and even offered their vision of the "Apple" of electric cars, which have rightly noted, is quite similar to the "original"), as the first spy photos of the developed vehicle involved in the network.

I wonder what the source of the first images of epnmobile" were not European or American media (which is rumored being the key development work), and the Chinese comrades who would seem to know less than others about the project "Titan".





 

For the first time about the secret project Apple "Titan" became known just over a year ago. A little later the information appeared about the attempt IT giant agreed to cooperation with carmaker BMW. However, the German brand has its own intention to conquer the electric market and therefore plans of cooperation were reviewed.

The latest news indirectly confirms the company's work on the construction of "i-mobile", can be attributed to the newspaper The Guardian that Apple representatives met with the California administration and discussed the use of unmanned vehicles on public roads in this state. Also, recently, the network appeared information that Apple's electric vehicle has registered several domain names, including apple.cars, apple.auto and apple.car.

At the beginning of this year, insiders began to talk about some problems, in particular, that Apple ceased to recruit staff, but it was probably just a small hitch and the project was not fully minimized. As stated in one of his interviews, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, now in the USA on the development of electric cars Apple employs hundreds of former engineers from famous brands.

 





Musk knows what he's talking about. Earlier, Reuters was told that from the company Tesla Motors, Apple went experienced specialist Jamie Carlson and information resource Electrek, Apple recently pulled from Tesla and Vice President Chris Porritt. In addition, road project "Apple" stepped up Megan McClain from Volkswagen, Vinay Palkot from Carnegie-Mellon and Paul Furgal from the Technical University of Zurich.

Now the German Agency Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported: assist in the production of iCar will provide the Austrian company Magna Steyr. She has enough experience in manufacturing electric motors, power electronic and other automotive components, as well as a range of proprietary concepts (Mila EV (2009), PHEV Mila, Mila Plus, etc.) As usual in such cases, Apple representatives refused to comment on this information.

Also, the online edition of the FAZ said that Apple has established an automotive headquarters with a secret laboratories in Berlin, where it already employs up to 30 IT specialists and automotive engineers, recruited from other German automakers.

It is expected that the Apple car will be released to the masses" at approximately 2019-2020 year and, most likely, its first model will not have the full drone functionality. It is also assumed that the Apple iCar will be actively used to create a system of car-sharing (short-term rental cars), a trend in the development of which interested a lot of other "electric mobility startups, including Faraday Future and LeEco.

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