navigation search this article is about the speculative project from apple inc. for the 1910 era car see apple automobile . icar redirects here . for the magazine see icar magazine . for other uses see icar disambiguation . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may be in need of reorganization to comply with wikipedia s layout guidelines . please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message the apple electric car project codenamed titan 1 is an electric car project allegedly undergoing research and development by apple inc. 2 it is rumored a substantial number of apple employees are working on this project . 3 4 5 the project was rumored to be approved by apple ceo tim cook in late 2014 and assigned to vice president steve zadesky a former ford engineer as project in charge . 6 in january 2016 steve zadesky was reported to be leaving apple for personal reasons after 16 years . 7 8 for the project apple was rumored to have hired johann jungwirth the former president and chief executive of mercedes benz research and development north america jungwirth is now working for volkswagen ag 9 as well as at least one transmission engineer . 10 11 12 13 to date apple has yet to comment on any plans to make an electric car . apple co founder and ceo steve jobs had plans to design and build a car according to apple board member and j.crew group ceo mickey drexler who said that discussions about the concept surfaced around the time that tesla motors debuted its first car . 14 former apple ipod senior vp tony fadell confirmed that steve jobs was interested in an apple car back in 2008 shortly after the original iphone was introduced . 15 reports indicate that the company has been offering incentives to tesla employees to join apple . 16 the wall street journal reports that the product would resemble more of a minivan than a car 3 and the sydney morning herald says that production could start as soon as 2020 . 17 in may 2015 apple investor tycoon carl icahn stated that he believed the rumors that said apple would enter the automobile market in 2020 and that logically apple would view this car as the ultimate mobile device . 18 19 in august 2015 the guardian reported that apple were meeting with officials from gomentum station 2 a testing ground for connected and autonomous vehicles at the former concord naval weapons station in concord california . 20 in september 2015 there were reports that apple were meeting with self driving car experts from the california department of motor vehicles . 21 22 23 24 according to the wall street journal it will be a battery electric vehicle initially lacking full autonomous driving capability with a possible unveiling around 2019 . 25 26 27 in october 2015 at the wall street journal s wsjdlive conference at the montage resort in laguna beach california apple ceo tim cook stated about the car industry that it would seem like there will be massive change in that industry massive change . you may not agree with that . that s what i think ... we ll see what we do in the future . i do think that the industry is at an inflection point for massive change . cook enumerated ways that the modern descendants of the ford model t would be shaken to the very chassis the growing importance of software in the car of the future the rise of autonomous vehicles and the shift from an internal combustion engine to electrification . 28 in november 2015 various websites reported that suspected apple front sixtyeight research had attended an auto body conference in europe . 29 also in november 2015 after unknown ev startup faraday future announced a 1 billion u.s. factory project 30 some speculated that it might actually be a front for apple s secret car project . 31 32 in 2016 tesla motors ceo elon musk stated that apple will probably make a compelling electric car it s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it 33 in may 2016 there were reports indicating apple was interested in electric car charging stations . 34 on july 29 2016 bloomberg technology reported that apple had hired dan dodge the founder and former chief executive officer of qnx blackberry ltd. s automotive software division . according to bloomberg dodge s hiring heralds a shift in emphasis at apple s project titan in which the company will give first priority to creating software for autonomous vehicles . however the story said that apple will continue to develop a vehicle of its own . 35 on september 9 2016 the new york times reported dozens of layoffs in an effort to reboot . 36 list of names claimed to be working on the unconfirmed project edit jamie carlson an engineer on tesla s autopilot self driving car program and before that he worked on automotive vision systems for michigan based supplier gentex corp. 37 megan mcclain a former volkswagen ag engineer with expertise in automated driving . 37 vinay palakkode a graduate researcher at carnegie mellon university a hub of automated driving research . 37 xianqiao tong an engineer who developed computer vision software for driver assistance systems at microchip maker nvidia corp nvda.o . 37 paul furgale former deputy director of the autonomous systems lab at the swiss federal institute of technology . 37 sanjai massey an engineer with experience in developing connected and automated vehicles at ford and several suppliers . 37 stefan weber a former bosch engineer with experience in video based driver assistance systems . 37 lech szumilas a former delphi research scientist with expertise in computer vision and object detection . 37 doug betts former global quality leader at fiat chrysler . 38 johann jungwirth former head of research and development at mercedes 39 left for vw in nov. 2015 40 mujeeb ijaz a former ford motor co. engineer who founded a123 systems s venture technologies division which focused on materials research electrical battery cell product development and advanced concepts who helped recruited four to five staff researchers from a123 a battery technology company 17 nancy sun formerly vice president of electrical engineering at electric motorcycle company mission motors in san francisco 41 mark sherwood formerly director of powertrain systems engineering at mission motors 41 eyal cohen formerly vice president of software and electrical engineering at mission motors 41 jonathan cohen former director of nvidia s deep learning software 42 nvidia uses deep learning in its nvidia drive px 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