{"id":6707,"date":"2021-06-11T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:57:38","slug":"apple-hires-former-canoo-ceo-for-car-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-hires-former-canoo-ceo-for-car-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Hires Former Canoo CEO For Car Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple has hired a former top executive of BMW AG&#8217;s electric car division to help with its vehicle project, the tech giant announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulrich Kranz, formerly chief executive of electric car start-up Canoo Inc., will report to Apple&#8217;s Doug Field, who led the development of Tesla&#8217;s mass-market Model 3 and now heads Apple&#8217;s auto project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple&#8217;s automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have been haphazard since 2014 when Apple first began designing its own vehicle from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, it was reported that Apple is moving ahead with its technology for self-driving cars, aiming to create a vehicle by 2024 that could include its own breakthrough battery technology.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-hires-former-bmw-executive-car-project-bloomberg-news-2021-06-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has hired a former top executive of BMW and Canoo to help with its vehicle project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech","tag-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}