Apple is abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in its history.
Apple's efforts to bring to the real world her own car fall permanently into the void, as the American company appears to freeze permanently the venture to build an electric (and autonomous) car with its brands and know-how.
Apple has reportedly notified them directly interested yesterday, bringing them almost to completion 2,000 employees who are already working on the project in question.
Both the CEO of the company Jeff Williams as well as Kevin Lynch, vice president and project manager, told staff that many of the Special Projects Group employees they will move to the artificial intelligence department..
The Apple group in question includes hundreds engineers and designers. However, several of them will be laid off, but it is not clear how many.
The decision to put a permanent brake on the whole project ends an effort several billion dollars which started before about 10 years, which would put Apple in a completely different for the same industry with the goal of building one fully autonomous electric vehicle with advanced navigation with voice guidance.
Apple intended to make its own car available no later than 2026 at a price that would reach around 100,000 dollars.