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Charlie Stross Feb 27, 2024

Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decade long Effort

The most recent approach discussed internally was delaying a car release until 2028 and reducing self-driving specifications from Level 4 to Level 2+ technology.

Many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey

Apple Inc. is canceling a decadelong effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company.

Bloomberg

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Jon Hancock Feb 27, 2024

@cstross They actually called the car team the SPG? Unfortunate.

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Óscar Morales Vivó

@BigJackBrass @cstross Special Projects Group is a catch-all umbrella for experimental product categories and big tech bets. iPhone/Watch/Vision spent some time in SPG before being made into launched products, plenty of other things we never heard about because they got canceled and didn’t leak all over the place.