“Electrek, in collaboration with our sister-site 9to5Mac, has exclusively discovered and confirmed respectively that Apple hired former Tesla Vice President of Vehicle Engineering and former Aston Martin Chief Engineer, Chris Porritt, to work on ‘special projects,’ and we know that ‘special projects’ is where Apple’s Titan car project lives,” Fred Lambert reports for Electrek.
“Coincidentally (or not), a recent report claimed that Steve Zadesky, the Apple executive believed to be leading Project Titan, left the company earlier this year,” Lambert reports. “If Zadesky indeed left the company, it would make newly hired Porritt Apple’s most senior ‘car guy’ and a likely candidate to lead the Cupertino company’s electric car initiative. ”
“Before moving to Silicon Valley, Porritt was a key engineer in the UK automotive industry. He started as an intern at Land Rover in 1987 and rose to the role of Principal Engineer in Vehicle Dynamics by 1997. The engineer then went to work for Aston Martin where he held a Chief Engineer role until 2013, when he joined Tesla as Vice President of Vehicle Engineering,” Lambert reports. “At Aston Martin, Porritt was credited with making some of the company’s most iconic vehicles in recent years, including the One-77 supercar, V12 Zagato and Aston Martin DB9.”
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