In recent weeks, it was revealed that Apple had canceled the electric vehicle project it had been working on for more than a decade. While the eyes of the car industry turned to the technology giant with this leak, new details were revealed today. Here is the surprising information about Apple Car…
Newly revealed details about Apple Car
Apple canceled its electric car codenamed “Titan Project”, which is said to have been developing since 2014, by making an announcement to the team of 2 thousand people. While it is said that the engineers and design team involved in the work were shifted to different projects, a number of hardware engineers were unfortunately laid off.
This electric vehicle was said to be self-driving with advanced autonomous technology. It was expected to be released in 2026. However, it seems that Apple has had difficulty maintaining the vision in its R&D expenditures for years.
SpaceX, one of the rising companies of recent times, has come into the spotlight this time with some unpleasant lawsuit news.
Apple is said to have made very serious investments for the electric car project. In this direction, the cancellation of this major project brought curiosity. Recently, some reliable sources shared unknown details about the Apple Car. Let’s take a closer look at these.
Apple tried to reach an agreement with Mercedes and Ford
These details are about the early days of the project. According to the information, Apple first tried to cooperate with Mercedes-Benz to produce electric vehicles. The companies made progress in negotiations that lasted for months and then started to work.
Mercedes was going to produce the Apple Car. But not only that, it would also integrate the vehicle’s autonomous driving software into its own models. In this way, it was aiming to sell more. However, after some time passed, Apple withdrew from the deal, thinking that they could do this on their own without Mercedes.
On the other hand, it was reported that Apple was also in talks with Ford for vehicle production, but after the first meeting for this, the parties did not come together again.
It was going to buy McLaren
According to the source, Apple started planning to buy a carmaker after failing to reach an agreement with Mercedes and Ford. Subsequently, the company held talks with Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the company. However, these talks were not continued because Apple CEO Tim Cook did not want them to continue. Later, it is stated that the two companies sat at the table again to buy batteries for the vehicle.
