Nippon Geizai Shimbun “It seems that we have been working on multiple companies including Japanese companies”
According to an analysis, Apple is negotiating with a number of companies including Japanese companies in addition to Hyundai and Kia for the production of self-driving electric vehicles.
Apple seems to have attempted to produce electric vehicles (EV) with multiple automakers including Japanese companies, the Nihon Keizai newspaper (Nikkei) reported on the 5th.
Reportedly, an executive in the industry said about Apple’s move to determine an electric car production partner, “It may be decided as a Korean company.
(Apple) is in the process of negotiating where to make it,” he said. “Bargaining with at least six companies is in progress.”
Among Japanese automakers, Honda and Mazda responded that they “can’t talk” about whether they were hit by Apple, Mitsubishi Motors said “no such facts”, and Nissan Motors avoided the answer. Nikkei said.
An executive at one of the major automakers said it was “interesting,” without revealing whether Apple was hitting it.
The newspaper noted that the research base established by Apple in Yokohama city seems to have become a contact point with Japanese automakers and parts suppliers, but it did not specify which Japanese companies are negotiating with Apple.
The US economic media CNBC reported on the 3rd local time that Hyundai and Kia are in the final stages of negotiations to produce an Apple-branded self-driving electric vehicle called’Apple Car’.
/yunhap news
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