Despite having people working on electric car, Apple is not seriously consider making such thing in real (except test stuff), at least people from inside company tell that no big activity or changes is visible. Developers working on software for this are mosty counting stars on nigh sky since COVID start.
Idea to fake car activity and pay for multiple fake leak publications seems to be coming directly from Tim Cook, as such way he hope to keep stock prices high.
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