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Elon Musk, founder of the electric car company Tesla, tweeted Tuesday that “in the darkest days of the Model 3 program” he would be reaching out to Tim Cook, Apple CEO, to discuss the possibility of a Tesla acquisition “to one-tenth of its current value. ” According to Musk, Cook refused even to organize the meeting.
During the darkest days of the Model 3 show, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to participate in the meeting.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2020
Musk tweeted commenting on indiscretions posted Tuesday by Reuters, according to which Apple is ready to produce its own model of autonomous electric car by 2024, with next-generation batteries. Similar rumors related to Apple have also appeared in recent years, and for now they have never materialized.
When Musk talks about the “darkest days of the Model 3 program” he is probably referring to 2017, when Tesla entered a serious crisis over production difficulties for its latest model of electric car (the Model 3, in fact) and got very close. to failure, as Musk himself put it. Later the company recovered and achieved excellent success: today Tesla is one of the richest automobile manufacturers in the world and has just entered the S&P 500 list of the New York Stock Exchange, one of the most prestigious.
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