Apple Car you can do: Apple welcomes the project and anticipates the launch date

The electric car will be according to the Journal, but would not come until 2019. Apple has expanded the development team of the new product to 600 members after assessing the feasibility of the project.

Apple accelerates the development on its electric car project with the goal set for 2019. In return, it is the Wall Street Journal points out that the company has started to define a possible launch date for the product. To speed up the process of vehicle development Apple is expanding the group of people involved in the project, up to triple the number of members. All this after months in which Apple has completed a series of aggressive recruitment of managers and former employees of the automotive manufacturers.

” The go-ahead came after the company investigated the feasibility of a car brand Apple for more than a year, ” writes the Journal. ” There were also meetings with two groups of government officials in California. The leaders of the project, currently known as Titan, have given permission to triple team of 600 people. ” Apple is exploring the possibility of introducing autonomous driving technologies for the next projects. However, the first model to be put on the market will need a driver.

The evidence of possible interest Apple against the segment are not few, with more and more blocks to be added with the passage of time. It is still unclear whether or not Apple is considering the possibility of starting from a base already prepared or make a car from scratch. In the latter case, the sources of the Journal appear skeptical, mainly because design and build a car from scratch is time consuming, and the company could easily stay within the schedule.

It seems that Apple has recently launched a number of talks with BMW about a possible partnership for the use of the assets of the i3 as the basis for Titan, but the two companies do not seem to have reached an agreement. The WSJ says that 2019 will not be the launch date of the product, but rather a time when the company’s engineers will be able to confirm the specifications and base features.

Last week, Tim Cook has tackled an elusive question about Apple Car during an interview with Stephen Colbert: ” We see a lot of things and possibilities, but we decided to mobilize our energies on only a few of these, ” he said Apple CEO. The car of Apple will be really? The doubts on the subject become less and less, but given the complexity of the product it is certain that if one-day Apple will talk about it, it will still take several years.