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Apple Secretly Tapped BYD To Build Battery For Cancelled Apple Car
Today on Critical Materials: Apple worked with BYD for the Apple Car Battery, Tesla gets a new exec, and people keep wandering into the Vegas Loop.
Today, we're chatting about Apple's secret project to develop the battery for its nixed car, Tesla's new VP pick, and folks who sneak into the Tesla-only Vegas Loop. The partnership was said to be led by Alexander Hitzinger, a former racing engineer for Porsche who worked on Project Artemis (which morphed into the Audi Grandsphere concept), and Mujeeb Ijaz, a senior executive who left Apple to design a high-density EV battery capable of longer ranges. Just like Tesla's board gunning for Musk's$56 billion pay package, a bit of friendly separation and pushback from other executives can help to keep a car company from becoming a clouded echo chamber or AI and robotaxis.
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