Apple cancels electric car project to focus on AI

Apple has backed away from its efforts to build an electric car, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in its history that it had been working on for many years.

According to Bloomberg, the company’s decision came as a surprise to the two thousand employees working on the project, while executives confirmed that the project will begin liquidation and that many employees in the automotive team – known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG – will be transferred to the artificial intelligence department.

The Apple Cars team also includes several hundred hardware engineers and vehicle designers. They may be able to apply for jobs on other Apple teams, while there will be layoffs.