In an interview with the BBC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Apple is developing an electric car, “the secret”. Musk made this statement when asked if he had heard anything about the plans for the development of the Apple cars and a huge number of professional staff recruited “Apple company”.
“Well, it’s pretty hard to hide something if you are hiring more than a thousand engineers to work on this, he said, adding that Apple is serious about this project. Is the secret”.
Musk said that Tesla welcomes the participation of any company that wants to build electric vehicles, but warns that it is “quite difficult”. He dismissed the questions from the interviewer about whether a car from Apple to pose a threat to Tesla, and added that Apple would develop a “compelling” electric vehicle because it is “the most obvious thing you can do”. Earlier maker Tesla has repeatedly said that after smart hours Apple does not remain anything, except how to enter the market of cars. To make the next stylus is already not comme Il faut.
Musk is aware of Apple’s plans because the company is trying to hire former employees of Tesla for your automotive project. Between the companies began a kind of rivalry, since they both claim the best talents. In October, Musk said that “if you are unable to work in the Tesla, you take the Apple”. And although from this statement he subsequently refused in companies Mask the Apple is called the “graveyard of Tesla”, as in “Apple the company” take those who were let go from Tesla.
The first rumors on the subject of Apple car project, codenamed Project Titan appeared in the beginning of 2015. Since then, Apple has hired dozens of engineers and researchers from the field of automobiles and other related areas, “Shantel” employees from companies like Tesla, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Samsung and others.
Over the last few months of evidence pointing to the involvement of Apple to develop the car even more. Apple was looking for a safe place to test electric vehicles in may 2015, and met with senior officials to discuss laws and regulations regarding self-governing vehicles in California in September. More recently, Apple has registered three top-level domain: apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto.