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An Apple VP who helped begin work on the electrical Apple Automotive mission is departing for an additional automotive firm, with DJ Novotney heading over to Rivian.
DJ Novotney, an nearly 25-year veteran at Apple, was the vp of {hardware} engineering on the iPhone maker. Nevertheless he’s now ending his time at Apple, in favor of a brand new function elsewhere.
Bloomberg experiences Novotney will grow to be the SVP of auto packages at Rivian, and can report on to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe.
Novotney introduced his departure at Apple with a memo, advising “Apple has been my life, however now’s the time for me to maneuver on and assist carry to life a brand new set of merchandise.” He additionally mentioned he has been “so very fortunate alongside the way in which to be a part of so many superb groups that developed all the things from iPod, iPhone, iPad, Watch, and so many extra.”
Together with a number of generations of core Apple merchandise, Novotney additionally labored on one long-time mission, the Apple Automotive. He’s credited within the report as serving to begin the event of an electrical car underneath the mission.
Later, he turned a “senior government answerable for growing future residence units,” the report provides, together with work in synthetic intelligence and robotics.
Novotney is not the one Apple worker to leap ship to Rivian within the final month. On January 22, Electrek experiences Rivian had employed on Jonas Reinke, a four-year head of product, mobility and auto companies at Apple, who beforehand spent over a decade at Porsche.
The brand new departure is the most recent downside for the long-delayed Apple Automotive, which has apparently been pushed again to a 2028 launch. On the identical time, Apple allegedly downscaled its plans for the car, from full automation to a Stage 2+ system able to restricted autonomous capabilities, similar to lane centering and adaptive cruise management.
