Philip Houska The fact that Apple is secretly working on a project related to the automotive industry is practically an open secret. Although the Californian company is officially silent, many recent steps indicate that it is really planning something around cars. Now, in addition, Apple has gained a very important reinforcement for its secret team, an experienced engineer Chris Porrit comes from Tesla.
Porrit is a former managing director of Aston Martin, where he spent a total of sixteen years, and previously worked for ten years at Land Rover. However, he comes to Apple from Tesla, where he became vice president of automotive engineering three years ago and participated in the development of the Model S and Model X electric cars.
As the first one he came with information about the significant acquisition of Apple, which has been fighting with Tesla over many important employees in recent months, the website ELECTrek, who follows the movement between the two companies in detail and pointed out that although there has been an influx of employees to both sides, it has never involved such a high-ranking employee as Porrit.
This is a big catch for Apple, and Chris Porrit should probably succeed Steve Zadesky, who in January he left Apple after sixteen years. It was Zadesky who was supposed to head the secret team working on the apple car project, but Porrit should be a very good replacement. Tesla himself said of Porrito that he was a first-class leader and a top engineer.
The transfer of a high-ranking engineer from Tesla to Apple somewhat invalidates the words of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who last year referred to Apple as a burial ground, where people who failed in his company go. Although information appeared in January that "Project Titan", as Apple's secret efforts are referred to, has problems, however, there can obviously be no talk of any termination of development.
