Apple is interested in charging stations for electric vehicles – Investing.com Spain

By Julia Love and Alexandria Sage

Apple (NASDAQ is investigating how charge electric vehicles, making contacts with companies that make charging stations and hiring engineers experience in the area, as related to the subject and according to a review of profiles on LinkedIn (NYSE:) people.

for more than a year, Silicon Valley has been speculation about Apple’s plans to build a electric car. Now the company appears to be preparing the ground infrastructure and related software to enhance such product

Measurements show that the company is responding to a key flaw of electric vehicles. The battery charge. The lack of public charging stations and the hours are lost to recharge the car could be an opportunity for Apple, whose simple designs has transformed consumer electronics.

Apple, which has never publicly acknowledged a project on a car, he declined to comment. Or LinkedIn profiles or sources specifically said that Apple is building charging stations for electric vehicles.

Sources in the automotive industry, however, said last year Reuters that Apple was considering an electric vehicle autonomous driving, at a time when the Silicon Valley company seeks new sources of income to a maturing market for iPhone.

Apple has consulted companies charging stations on its base technology, he said a person familiar with the matter. The talks, which have not been published, do not refer to charge electric vehicles of the employees of the company, a service that already provides the technology giant. It suggests that Apple is focused on a car, the source added.

The companies have acted carefully, the source said, afraid of sharing too much information with a company they see as a potential rival.

Several providers charging stations contacted by Reuters declined to comment on whether they had been in contact with Apple, which usually requires potential partners to sign confidentiality agreements.

Apple has hired least four specialists charging electric vehicles, including the former employee of BMW (DE Rónán Ó Braonáin, who worked on integrating the charging infrastructure in the energy systems of the home, according to a report on LinkedIn.

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