[E006]Is Apple building electric car in top secret research lab?

摘自：【Yahoo News Digest】

Apple is moving into the automotive[adj. 汽车的；自动的] industry by designing an electric car, according to reports. A team of 1,000 has been assembled by the company to build the vehicle, which the Wall Street Journal[华尔街日报]says “resembles a minivan[小型货车]”. The newspaper reports it could take several years for “Project Titan” to reach the production stage. Apple may not even end up producing a car at all, the paper writes.

We’ve taken iOS and extended it into your car, into your home, into your health. None of us want to have different platforms in different parts of our lives.

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive

Apple executive Steve Zadesky, a former Ford engineer, is apparently headingthe project. He previously led teams developing the iPod and iPhones. The Wall Street Journal claims Apple staff have visited car builders such as Magna Steyr[麦格纳斯太尔公司], which has produced vehicles for Mercedes[ 梅塞德斯] and BMW. There are reports that Apple is recruiting experts in automotive technology and vehicle design to work at a new top-secret research lab inSilicon Valley. Apple has made no comment on its reported move into automotives. Google, one of Apple’s leading rivals, has spent years developing an autonomous vehicle [无人驾驶汽车].