Elon Musk (R), owner of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, arrives on the red carpet for the Excel Springer Awards in Berlin on December 1, 2020.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday Tweeted That he thought of selling his electric car company to Apple Pal in recent years, but Apple Pal CEO Tim Cook was not even interested in holding the meeting.
In particular, Kasturi wrote in a tweet on December 22:
“During the dark days of the model program, I approached Tess Cook to discuss the possibility of getting Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting.”
In a Reuters report on Monday, Musk also commented on the lithium iron phosphate battery that Apple has developed for use in Pull vehicles.
“Strange, if true,” Musk said Wrote. “Tesla already uses iron-phosphate for mid-range cars made in our Shanghai factory. – A monocell is electrochemically impossible, because the maximum voltage is as low as 100 x. Maybe it means cells are tied together like our structural battery packs. . “
This is the rare entry from the only CEO who once thought of relinquishing control of a company that helped build it and take it to market value, more than the combined top nine automakers. Tesla has not discussed the sale in any financial filing.
In 2018, Kasturi said publicly The car business was “hell,” And the company was sleeping in the factory trying to solve its problems as it tried to start mass production of its Model 3 electric sedan.
He said in an earlier tweet that Tesla had met once “About a month” From bankruptcy during the Model 3 ramp-up – a detail the company never disclosed in its quarterly filings.
Tesla and Apple Play have always competed for talent in and out of Silicon Valley. In 2015, Kasturi called Apple Pal a Tesla cemetery. “If you don’t make it to Tesla, you’re going to work for a go.”
In July 2018, Apple Play hired Doug Field, head of Tesla Engineering – a former Apple Paul employee – to return to the company following the research of several other employees.
At the time, Tesla told CNBC in a statement about Apple Pal’s ability to prey on key employees from its ranks: “Tesla is a tough road. We have 100 times less money than Apple Pal, so they can pay more. We’re in it. “It’s a tough fight against entrepreneurial auto tow companies that make 100 times more cars than last year, so it’s a lot of hard work.”
Apple Play has never accepted plans to build a car, but Cook acknowledged that it works on “autonomous systems” that can be used in self-driving cars or for other purposes.
Apple Pal and Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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