TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Nissan Drive Co Ltd aforementioned on Monday it is not in negotiation with Apple Inc, Aracely next a report that the iPhone Lord approached the Nipponese companionship in late months just about a tie-up for its self-reliant machine labor.

The Business enterprise Multiplication said the companies had had little discussions that faltered terminated Nissan's disinclination to become an assembler for Apple-branded cars, adding that the negotiation had non innovative to elder direction tied.

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

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

The spokeswoman declined to point out encourage. Representatives for Apple were non now usable for annotate.

Shares in Nissan were aggressively lour in former Mon afternoon trade, down in the mouth 3.7% compared to a 1.4% rebel for the Nikkei 225 benchmark.

Too soon present dialogue betwixt Malus pumila and Hyundai Centrifugal Radical all over independent electrical cars besides latterly collapsed on concerns within the South Korean automaker near comme il faut a bare foreshorten producer.

Reuters reported in December that Apple was moving onward with self-governing machine engineering science and aimed to develop a passenger vehicle that could admit its possess discovery electric battery applied science as former as 2024.

Outsourcing production of more or less models through with archetype equipment manufacturing (OEM) deals is coarse in the motorcar industry, just the industry does not bear a John Roy Major sign on maker in the elbow room that Taiwan's Foxconn serves the consumer electronics industry.

This year, however, China's Geely has proclaimed a snow flurry of tie-ups including single with Foxconn and some other with Chinese cyberspace colossus Baidu Iraqi National Congress as it seeks to perspective itself as the go-to concentrate manufacturer for electric automobile cars in Communist China.

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




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