Apple poached tesla engineering vice President Michael manus

According to foreign media reports, apple had done before tesla executives, Steve Mike manus ( Steve MacManus) In the past year, this is apple from tesla poached at least the third project executive.

according to his personal data in the professional networking site LinkedIn, mike manus was tesla is responsible for automotive interiors and exteriors, vice President of engineering, he left the car manufacturer in the recent, and joined the apple as senior director.

he began in 2015 to work in the tesla, had earlier in the jaguar land rover ( 捷豹路虎) , bentley ( 宾利汽车公司) And aston Martin ( 阿斯顿·马丁) Work in the past. His experience in interior design may apply to apple other than developed car business. Apple did not respond to requests for comment on Monday.

apple also drive system before march poached tesla, vice President, Michael : the coontz, 迈克尔·Schwekutsch) And in August last year poached tesla's former chief engineer doug - vehicle The field ( Doug字段) 。

apple and tesla has for years been in poaching each other engineers, this can sometimes cause tensions between the two parties. In 2015, tesla CEO elon - Musk ( Elon Musk) When accepting a reporter to interview for apple and other Tesla's grave & throughout; 。

some industry analysts and investors speculated that the two companies could to establish cooperation relations, or apple may acquire the carmaker.