Apple Inc has recruited a longtime Ford Motor Co executive who helped lead safety efforts and vehicle engineering, a sign the iPhone maker is again ramping up development of an electric car.
Apple has hired Desi Ujkashevic for its electric car project. Ujkashevic had worked at Ford since 1991, most recently serving as its global director of automotive safety engineering.Apple Inc as recruited a longtime Ford Motor Co executive who helped lead safety efforts and vehicle engineering, a sign the iPhone maker is again ramping up development of an electric car.
The Cupertino, California-based company declined to comment on the hire. Ford said Ujkashevic has retired from the automaker. Turnover has been especially heavy over the past year. Besides the departure of Field, Apple lost key managers in charge of hardware engineering, robotics and sensors. In some cases, high-ranking engineers left to join flying taxi startups.
Apple also is trying to master autonomous driving as part of the project – an auto-industry holy grail that tech companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Waymo have also been grappling with. Ujkashevic is one of the few senior managers on Apple’s car team to come from the auto industr. Last year, Apple hired Ulrich Kranz, a former BMW executive and onetime head of self-driving startup Canoo. Stuart Bowers, a former Tesla executive who worked on self-driving software, and Jonathan Sive, an ex-manager at Tesla, Waymo and BMW, also are involved.
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