Apple adds a former Tesla engineer to its autonomous car project

One more interesting project that Apple has done for the past few years is its autonomous car project. This project has lived and died, but it seems the project is preparing because Apple is reportedly employing a former Tesla engineer to improve the development of autonomous cars. The engineer in question was Christopher Moore, which was added to the team that focused on Apple’s autonomous car project.

Word of the rent came from people who claimed to be familiar with the project, but also Apple and Tesla had made official comments. Unfortunately, a collection of engineering talents with expertise in autonomous cars is not so big that there are many engineers to get around. Often, car makers lose important engineering personnel for competitors.

Another example was when Apple lost the head of the project, Doug, to Ford. The field will lead the Ford’s advanced technology embedded system project. While in Apple, the field is a VP of special projects, and he is in that position for a little more than three years. He also works with other aspects of the Apple business, including as a product design of VP and Mac Hardware Engineering VP. He spent five years Tesla as a VP vehicle program before becoming a Senior VP engineering. While in Tesla, he was responsible for the development for Model 3.

Apple moves forward with its autonomous car’s efforts, with reports that show targeting 2024 to disclose passenger vehicles with autonomous technology and battery technology. However, of all Apple projects work, the car’s efforts have become the most alive and dead again. In October, the report appeared that Apple had experienced problems with its car project, known as Titan Project, which was related to the battery.

According to the report, Apple has approached two Chinese battery manufacturers to see if they would build a battery for the vehicle. Chinese companies are Catl and BYD. Apple is not only looking for battery manufacturers to send batteries from abroad. It has a significant warning in its plan. Apple wants a battery manufacturer to build a US team and plants in the US.

The battery is a barrier for most electric vehicles in production today. For example, a tight battery supply has limited production in Ford for popular Mach-e electric vehicles and lightning pickups. Sources that are familiar with Apple negotiations with battery suppliers say no one wants to meet Apple requirements. Cat refused to hire a US team or build a factory in the United States, allegedly quoting tensions between China and America. BYD was reportedly not comfortable to build a factory in the US solely for Apple. However, with every American automotive manufacturer pushing towards electrification, you will think there will be many requests for batteries.

The report claimed that since Apple’s efforts to secure the battery from Chinese producers did not function, it turned to Japanese battery manufacturers. Exactly the battery manufacturer that speaks is not known at this time. In addition to taking technical talents from Tesla, Apple has also picked up EV experts from other companies, including BMW.

Previously, Apple hired former BMW electric vehicle executive for Titan projects. EV experts are Ulrich Kranz, who also set up EV startup called Canoo and worked at Faraday Future. He acted as a senior vice president for the BMW I division, who was responsible for i3 and i8 sports cars.