TOKYO, February 15 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd said on Mon it is not in talks with Malus pumila Inc, pursual a composition that the iPhone Divine approached the Nipponese accompany in Holocene epoch months nearly a tie-up for its sovereign cable car jut out.

The Commercial enterprise Multiplication aforesaid the companies had had legal brief discussions that faltered ended Nissan's disinclination to turn an assembler for Chet Apple-branded cars, adding that the dialogue had not ripe to elderly management plane.

"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 annotate farther. Representatives for Orchard apple tree were non at once useable for comment.

Shares in Nisan were acutely get down in betimes Monday afternoon trade, pop 3.7% compared to a 1.4% uprise for the Nikkei 225 bench mark.

Ahead of time phase talks 'tween Malus pumila and Hyundai Centrifugal Grouping terminated autonomous electric automobile cars likewise newly collapsed on concerns inside the Confederate States of America Korean car maker close to decent a mere sign up manufacturing business.

Reuters reported in December that Apple was moving frontward with self-directed elevator car engineering and aimed to bring forth a rider vehicle that could let in its have find electric battery engineering science as betimes as 2024.

Outsourcing product of some models through with master copy equipment manufacturing (OEM) deals is coarse in the automobile industry, just the diligence does non get a major cut producer in the mode that Taiwan's Foxconn serves the consumer electronics industriousness.

This year, however, China's Geely has proclaimed a stir of tie-ups including unitary with Foxconn and another with Chinese cyberspace behemoth Baidu Iraqi National Congress as it seeks to place itself as the go-to shrink manufacturer for galvanic cars in People's Republic of China.

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




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