1 | Are Apple & BMW making an electric car together? |
2 | Apple and BMW share a fondness for sleek engineering, but is that enough for them to bond over an electric car? |
3 | Reports out of Germany are giving the proposition a definite maybe - with claims the two are teaming up to take on Tesla. |
4 | Apple has been talking with BMW since the fall of 2014 about appropriating aspects of the company's i3 electric car, according to German business magazine Manager Magazin. |
5 | The i3, BMW's first all-electric vehicle, is said to have a carbon-fiber body that Apple wouldn't mind incorporating into its own entry in the $1 trillion auto industry. |
6 | Tech and Tesla watchers have been aflutter since February after The Wall Street Journal reported Apple CEO Tim Cook had signed off on an electric-car project, code named Titan, in 2014. |
7 | Adding fuel to the fire was Apple's recent hiring of Chrysler veteran Doug Betts and a slew of other automotive experts. |