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Linamar Explores Opportunities with Apple and Google
Canada’s Linamar Corp. is talking with Apple and Google about supplying unspecified components for the autonomous electric vehicle programs at both tech companies.
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Canada’s Linamar Corp. is talking with Apple and Google about supplying unspecified components for the autonomous electric vehicle programs at both tech companies.
“We’re quoting work and designing product that could be utilized in those vehicles,” CEO Linda Hasenfratz tells Bloomberg TV Canada. No other details we’re provided. Apple and Google declined comment.
Hasenfratz notes that non-traditional tech companies will need to partner with experienced suppliers such as Linamar as they expand into the auto industry. Linamar makes a variety of precision metal components and electrified power units.
Google, which has been testing its automated vehicle technology in modified productions cars for several years, announced a partnership last month with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to develop a new fleet of self-driving test vehicles. Although Apple has never confirmed a vehicle program, the company has been quietly hiring a team of automotive engineering and battery experts. Previous reports have linked Apple to mega-supplier Magna International Inc.
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