{"id":489205,"date":"2022-05-05T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489205"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:33:38","slug":"apple-hires-veteran-ford-executive-ujkashevic-for-electric-car-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/apple-hires-veteran-ford-executive-ujkashevic-for-electric-car-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple hires veteran Ford executive Ujkashevic for electric car project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has reportedly hired veteran Ford executive Desi Ujkashevic, as the iPhone maker plans to launch an electric car in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports claimed that Ujkashevic, who is Ford&#8217;s global director of safety engineering, will join Apple to help it develop a fully electric autonomous car. <\/p>\n<p>Ujkashevic joined Ford 31 years ago and worked across disciplines, including developing EVs, <\/p>\n<p>She worked on a range of Ford and Lincoln SUVs, as well as Ford&#8217;s Fiesta and Focus compact cars. <\/p>\n<p>Ujkashevic could help Apple navigate regulatory hurdles the company faces in testing self-driving prototypes on public roads, reports TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has reportedly hired veteran Ford executive Desi Ujkashevic, as the iPhone maker plans to launch an electric car in 2024. Multiple reports claimed that Ujkashevic, who is Ford&#8217;s global director of safety engineering, will join Apple to help it develop a fully electric autonomous car. Ujkashevic joined Ford 31 years ago and worked across disciplines, including developing EVs, She worked on a range of Ford and Lincoln SUVs, as well as Ford&#8217;s Fiesta and Focus compact cars. Ujkashevic could help Apple navigate regulatory hurdles the company faces in testing self-driving prototypes on public roads, reports TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}