San Francisco, June 11 -- Apple has roped in a former BMW executive and the recently departed CEO and co-founder of EV startup Canoo, Ulrich Kranz, for its electric car project.

Kranz will reportedly work on the Silicon Valley behemoth's electric car under Doug Field, the former Tesla executive who runs the day-to-day operations of the project, which is codenamed "Project Titan".

According to The Verge, Kranz was one of the executives who helped launch BMW's all-electric i3 hatchback and hybrid i8 sports car.

Shortly after he left the German automaker at the end of 2016, he and fellow BMW executive Stefan Krause were tapped to help turn around struggling EV startup Faraday Future.

The pair clashed with Faraday Future's founder, though...