Nissan Says apos;non In Dialogue With Apple apos; O er Self-reliant Elevator Car Project

TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Nissan Motive Co Ltd aforementioned on Monday it is non in dialogue with Orchard apple tree Inc, pursuit a story that the iPhone Jehovah approached the Nipponese caller in recent months astir a tie-up for its independent machine contrive.

The Business enterprise Multiplication aforementioned the companies had had little discussions that faltered concluded Nissan's indisposition to get an assembly program for Apple-branded cars, adding that the talks had not innovative to older management storey.

"We are not in talks with Apple," a Nissan spokeswoman aforesaid.

"However, Nissan is always open to exploring collaborations and partnerships to accelerate industry transformation."

The spokeswoman declined to remark encourage. Representatives for Orchard apple tree were non like a shot uncommitted for remark.

Shares in Nisan were crisply lower berth in too soon Monday afternoon trade, Audry mastered 3.7% compared to a 1.4% climb for the Nikkei 225 bench mark.

Ahead of time microscope stage talks between Orchard apple tree and Hyundai Centrifugal Radical ended self-governing electric car cars also new collapsed on concerns inside the Due south Korean carmaker about comme il faut a simple abridge maker.

Reuters reported in December that Malus pumila was moving forrard with self-directed automobile engineering and aimed to acquire a passenger vehicle that could include its possess find barrage fire engineering as betimes as 2024.

Outsourcing output of close to models through and through pilot equipment manufacturing (OEM) deals is plebeian in the auto industry, but the manufacture does non give birth a John R. Major abridge manufacturing business in the way of life that Taiwan's Foxconn serves the consumer electronics industry.

This year, however, China's Geely has announced a fuss of tie-ups including one with Foxconn and another with Formosan net goliath Baidu Inc as it seeks to lay itself as the go-to abridge producer for electric automobile cars in China.

(Reportage by Eimi Yamamitsu in Tokyo, Nandakumar D and Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Redaction by Edwina Gibbs)


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