The Wall Street Journal: Apple is developing an electric car Bashny.Net

According to The Wall Street Journal to the Apple automotive project involving about a thousand employees. The project received the code name "Titan".

Tim cook approved the project a year ago, the newspaper reports. Management of "Titanium" was entrusted to the Vice-President of the company Steve Sadecki, who has previously worked at Ford. Source The Wall Street Journal reported that the projected design of the car resembles a minivan.

Laboratory, which developed "Titan", located a few kilometers from Apple headquarters in Cupertino. Currently, it employs experts in robotics, metals and mechanisms.

The Financial Times also revealed that in recent months, Apple has actively recruited experts from the automotive industry to participate in the secret project. For example, the Creator of concept cars for Ford by Marc Newson and Executive Director R&D at Mercedes-Benz in North America Johann Jungwirth.

However, according to the reporters, there is no accurate information about whether Apple plans to launch the vehicle into production. For example, a company may develop a project "Titan" for studies of the individual technologies.

February 3, 2015 on the streets of the city of Concord, California, was seen a Dodge Caravan with an unidentified device on the roof. Then the CBS reporters found that the vehicle was rented by Apple.

 

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Source: siliconrus.com/2015/02/applecar/?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+siliconrus+%28%D0%A6%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%29