{"id":44388,"date":"2024-02-27T20:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=44388"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:54:43","slug":"apple-pulls-the-plug-on-autonomous-electric-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-pulls-the-plug-on-autonomous-electric-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple pulls the plug on autonomous electric vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has decided to cancel its electric car project, a venture it had been exploring for over a decade with significant financial investment.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, surprising to the project&#8217;s team of around 2,000 employees, comes after a shift in focus and multiple leadership changes. The project&#8217;s cancellation redirects employees primarily to Apple&#8217;s AI division, but with some of the employees specializing in automotive development, there will be some facing layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had tried to scale back its plans for an autonomous vehicle to create an electric car with a number of advanced options, but in the end the company has instead decided to abandon the project entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: MacRumors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has decided to cancel its electric car project, a venture it had been exploring for over a decade with significant financial investment. The decision, surprising to the project&#8217;s team of around 2,000 employees, comes after a shift in focus and multiple leadership changes. The project&#8217;s cancellation redirects employees primarily to Apple&#8217;s AI division, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,215],"tags":[202,275],"class_list":["post-44388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-tech","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-apple","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44390,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44388\/revisions\/44390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}