Easy car newsRecently, a former Apple Chinese engineer was officially sentenced for stealing car secrets, and he admitted that he stole the trade secrets of Project Titan while working as an Apple car project engineer. The client, Zhang Xiaolang, was sentenced to 120 days in prison and three years for supervised release, and was required to pay 14698400 USD (currently about 105.)RMB 80,000).
It is reported that since 2015, Zhang Xiaolang has worked for Apple, and when he returned in July 2018, he was accused of stealing Apple's self-driving trade secrets before switching to Xpeng Motors. Apple opened an investigation, and through tracking software and CCTV cameras, the company obtained evidence of his crime, and Zhang Xiaolang initially pleaded not guilty, but reached an agreement with the prosecution in 2022 to plead guilty instead.
Xpeng Motors said in 2022 that Xpeng Motors did not understand the specific circumstances of the case, nor did it intervene in the follow-up investigation of the case by the U.S. judicial authorities, and we have no related disputes with Apple, nor do we have any connection with the case.
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