Elon Musk, against the project of Apple to manufacture a car – Milenio.com

The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk lambasted Apple’s ambitions to manufacture a car that can compete with Tesla electric vehicles.

Apple Musk said Tesla engineers only hired the automaker dismissed, so he dismissed the idea that employees were important.

“We always say jokingly that Apple is ‘Cemetery Tesla’. If unsuccessful in Tesla, you will work to Apple, “said the German newspaper Handelsblatt during a tour of Berlin. “No kidding”

The CEO of Tesla, who also heads the space company SpaceX, and chairs the alternative energy company SolarCity, mocked Apple’s ambitions to build an intelligent car, asked.: “Have you ever seen the Apple Watch?” and laughed

“No, really. It’s nice that Apple move and invest in this direction. But cars are very complex compared to smart phones or watches. You can not go with a provider such as Foxconn and say build me a car, “he said

This year Apple showed signs of preparing to build a car, including the hiring of experts in automotive technology and design. vehicles, he asked a test site for freelancers and connected cars as they had an available date for a test, and the purchase of a company mapping analysis of large data.

In May, Jeff Williams, Apple vice president of operations, said the car is the “best mobile”, which hinted that the company may be working on one. More recently, Apple executives met with officials from the California auto regulator to discuss autoconducción vehicles.

An Apple-intelligent car or even autoconducción- can be a threat to the current automotive, Detroit to Germany and to new companies like Tesla. GM last week outlined plans to compete with Google and Apple in autoconducción vehicles, and said that he had a good position to be an ‘innovative’.

Apple said Musk, design a car It will be “the next logical step to finally offer a significant innovation.” He criticized the products the company released last month, said: “A new pencil or a larger iPad alone are not sufficiently relevant”
Apple did not respond to requests for comment

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Millions of dollars is the current market capitalization of Tesla Motors in the stock market New York.