With regards to the competition with Apple on the production of electric car, Tesla CEO, OSA, Elon Musk, said he is not worry and that he believes that competition will ultimately help the industry. He even called Apple effort OSA in the development of its own electric vehicle as an open secret. It is difficult to hide something if there is more than one thousand engineers working on it simultaneously. Apple also does not seem to be very difficult to try to cover his trail.
In recent months, Apple has been seen to employ some industry experts for its own project, which is known as the Titan project. A experts such as Doug Betts who led the overall quality of Fiat Automobiles NV before Chrysler decided to join Apple. The other expert is Johann Jungwirth, who was the former head of the unit Mercedes Benz, AOS Silicon Valley R & D
Musk even hoped that Apple participation, AOS encourage participation in the challenge of building electric vehicles, he found it quite difficult to do, in a BBC interview.
Currently, the company focuses on building a more affordable electric car, the Model 3. mass production of the car model will start at the end of next year. For this, he explained that to have a substantial effect on transportation, we needed to have to be more affordable cars and that car manufacturers needed to make a car that most people could afford in order to have a significant impact.
Asked about the role of Tesla, Musk said he saw the value of Tesla as an accelerator, a catalyst in this transition, he thought that Tesla could be, when we looked back on it from a historical perspective, an acceleration in the transition of a decade, maybe more.
Apparently, not only Tesla and Apple will be coming up with electric vehicles, other automakers such as Chevy, VOLKSWAGEN, Mercedes, Toyota and Audi as well as China, AOS new player in the industry automobile, Faraway Future, are reported to work on their own version of electric vehicles.
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