Tesla is to automakers what Apple was to Nokia circa 2007, says Marc Andreessen
Tesla has often been compared to Apple for its disruptive nature, but Marc Andreessen, a billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder…
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Tesla hired Apple’s OS security expert as connected cars are increasingly becoming a hacking risk
Tesla news not directly related to the Model 3 is hard to come by these days, but Electrek learned that…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk goes on two different shows to say he will cut back on media
Media organisations will be disappointed to learn that Tesla CEO Elon Musk plans on cutting back on media appearances. In the…
Apple to buy over $50 million worth of batteries from Tesla for new energy storage project
Apple announced a massive new energy storage project in California, and we learned that Tesla will supply its Megapack battery…
Elon Musk reveals he looked to sell Tesla to Apple for a fraction of its current value
Elon Musk has confirmed rumors that he tried to sell Tesla to Apple not so long ago, but Apple CEO…
Exclusive: Apple hires former Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Chris Porritt for ‘special [car] project’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has an affectionate nickname for Apple: The ‘Tesla Graveyard‘. “They have hired people we’ve fired,” Musk…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes to Twitter to soften comments on Apple, praise beautiful watch design
Yesterday we reported on comments made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a recent interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt. The CEO,…
Op-Ed: Putting Apple’s electric car project into perspective
At this point the fact that Apple is working on an electric vehicle is all but confirmed. Recent reports show that…
Tesla could go to Apple for take-private deal, says investor – does it make sense?
There have been rumors of Tesla and Apple partnering up for years, but now they are intensifying in light of…
Tesla hires creator of Swift programming language from Apple to lead Autopilot software
Today, Chris Lattner announced that he quit Apple after over a decade at the company where he developed the Swift programming…
An ‘Apple Car’ EV? What we know and how we got here
Apple has gifted the world with a library of devices that have since become household names, many of which we…
Tesla taps another Apple manufacturing veteran to lead vehicle manufacturing technologies
Tesla seems to be joining many other Silicon Valley companies in hiring employees away from Apple. Only weeks after poaching…
Patent troll goes after Apple, automakers and the developer of ‘Remote S’ for the Tesla Model S over the use of watch apps to control cars
A patent troll is currently suing Apple, Samsung and half the automotive industry – as well as other companies – over…
Samsung just bought a rumored Apple Car partner’s battery unit
Samsung has acquired the battery pack business of leading automotive parts supplier Magna International. The move, according to a statement from…
Elon Musk hopes Apple will enter car market, says Tesla is poaching 5x as many employees as Apple
Speculation regarding Apple’s plans to build an electric car has been at an all-time over recent months. Earlier this year,…
Tesla looks exactly like Apple pre-iPhone era, says venture capitalist
After billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen made the case that Tesla is to automakers what Apple was to Nokia circa 2007, now…
The chip guru who built Apple’s Ax microprocessors joins Tesla to lead the Autopilot Hardware Engineering team
Electrek has learned that Tesla this month quietly hired high-profile microprocessor engineer Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering. Tesla today…
Tesla hires yet another chip architecture titan out of Apple’s PA Semi, feeding the rumor that it plans to design its own silicon
If there’s indeed a poaching chess game going on between Tesla and Apple, it would appear the automaker is winning in…
Tesla snags Apple’s Reliability Director to scale up production with iPhone-like dependability
With some high profile exceptions, it is generally accepted that Apple ships some of the most reliable high-tech products out…
Apple hires Tesla’s head of electric powertrains in effort to bring electric car to market
There has long been a debate about Apple’s secretive automotive project being only about a self-driving system for vehicles rather…
Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth a few years ago, report says
Apple reportedly offered to buy Tesla at around $240 per share back in 2013. The bid from six years ago…
Tesla’s VP of Product Technology leaves for Facebook
Rich Heley was one of Tesla’s biggest hire and quickly rose in the executive ranks of the automaker. We broke…
Tesla hires former Burberry exec and Apple digital retail expert as ‘Global Creative Director’
Tesla recently made a key hire in digital retail and user experience. Electrek has learned that the automaker hired Chester Chipperfield, former…
Ferrari chairman believes Apple will build a car, calls Elon Musk ‘great marketer’ after Tesla dig
Speaking today on CNBC, Ferrari chairman and Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne spoke affirmatively when asked if he believes Apple will make…