Last year, Apple representatives have visited the BMW headquarters in Germany, as well as the production capacity in Leipzig, which creates a compact electric BMW i3. BMW's innovative approach to the production of some components of the electric vehicle inspired Apple representatives .
BMW is ready to license some of its development, but is afraid to be a simple contract supplier for a competitor. On the other hand, BMW is interested in deeper integration of information technology systems on board of their vehicles. Recently, in particular, it suggested that motorists warning system for changing traffic light at the crossroads: where there is no appropriate indication countdown at the traffic lights, on-board electronics will receive the data from system cloud and the corresponding count will be conducted already on display car dashboard.
Accordingly, Apple, BMW in the integration of different services, are also interested. In a separate publication Reuters reported that the leadership of BMW is willing to expand the range of electric vehicles family "i", as between the i3 and i8. Contacts with Apple and other companies of the IT sector, according to BMW representatives , will create vehicles that are connected to the global information network. Apple also rumors ascribe intention to create automatically controlled electric.