Apple plans to build a network of fuel service stations for electric vehicles

Apple hires are professionals working in charging stations for electric vehicles, reports Reuters on Wednesday. Editing conducted its own investigation and found another confirmation that the development of the company of your own vehicle.

According to data editing, in recent months, Apple has hired at least four of the engineers who specialize in the development of charging stations for electric vehicles. Among them, a former BMW ronan O'Брайонаин. Before Apple hired Nana lew, engineer, изучавшего wireless charging technology vehicles and former employee of Google, kurt Аделбергера system.

In addition to Apple, the terms will deal strictly confidential asked the companies engaged in the production of charging stations for electric vehicles, with information about their technologies. These companies, he hoped, not beginning to share information with Apple, seeing it as a potential competitor.

Apple's move the focus on the Titan project, says Reuters. At present, the company is working plot of 800,000 square feet for work on the vehicle. looks size of the land is considerably less than that required for the construction of the car production plant, but is sufficient for conducting research.

The resource WSJ wrote with reference to informed sources, that in the Titan project, last year there were about 600 employees, and today, the company is working on an extension command. One of the possible partners Apple called Canadian-Austrian agriculture by the automaker Magna. According to data from the German edition Frankfurter Allgemeine, Apple has created a "secret lab" in Berlin with staff 15-20 persons employed in the automobile business.

Note that the company Tesla Motors is willing to share with other technology manufacturers charge electric vehicles. She agrees to provide documentation, patents and other work related электрозаправок Supercharger resources. His Tesla plans to make the standard for the automotive industry.

The station information allow half an hour to charge the battery electric vehicle for overcoming 274 km, using for this 120 kW DC. Electricity owners of cars under the brand Tesla receive for free, but its cost is already included in the retail price on the vehicle. The same model should be practiced other automakers of the company, who have decided to move to the technology company.