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Apple apparently developed their own car – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
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According to media reports Apple is working on the development of their own cars. The iPhone maker is considering the construction of a type MPV, reported that “Wall Street Journal” on Saturday, citing an insider. It should concern a electric vehicle.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

The Group have experts for automotive engineering and design set, who worked in a secret facility in Silicon Valley. There, hundreds of people are employed. Will led the secret laboratory of Apple veteran Steve Zadesky who had already worked on iPod and iPhone, and once worked at Ford. Also, the current head of the development division of Mercedes-Benz in Sili con Valley, Johann Jungwirth was, switched to Apple.

                         
         
         
                                                             

The “Financial Times” reported on Friday evening about the secret car project at Apple. According to the newspaper, Apple designers have taken in recent months regularly with managers and engineers in the automotive sector and partly trying to poach them. With an electric car would make Apple among others, the industry pioneer Tesla and BMW competition. Many experts say these vehicles a bright future ahead, Tesla will sell several million of them by 2025, currently there are only some ten thousand.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Apple executives were flown for the project to Austria, to meet with contract manufacturers, under others with Magna Steyr, wrote the “Wall Street Journal”. Apple hope to do business with electric cars similar to mint as once the smartphone market with its iPhone, one of the sources was quoted as saying. Currently the team including various metals and other materials for auto explore.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Whether Apple will actually go through with the project and to market, according to “Wall Street Journal” is not fixed yet. The final implementation would in any case take years. Apple is known to test many prototypes that are not about products. There are, for example, still do not have Apple TV, it has been speculated over the years before. Expensive experiments can the company afford: The group is sitting on a mountain of money 178 billion dollars and travels mainly thanks to the success of the iPhone, a one billion profit after another

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Hundreds of car experts working on a secret development project from Apple: According to media reports, it involves a private electric vehicle. A German should be involved.

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