Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter on the 22nd (US local time) that “I had made an offer to acquire Tesla to Apple CEO Timcook.” The reaction came after foreign media reports that Apple will release its own electric car in 2024.
Elon Musk tweeted, “I contacted Tim Cook during a period of extreme difficulty in the development of the Model 3 to explore the possibility of acquiring Tesla, but he declined the meeting.” The amount proposed by Elon Musk is $62.7 billion (about 75 trillion won), which is 10% of the current market cap.
It is speculated that Elon Musk made an offer to buy Tesla from mid-2017 to mid-last year. Elon Musk tweeted in early November, saying, “We faced an extreme financial crisis between mid-2017 and mid-2019.”
Regarding the report on the development of Apple’s electric vehicle, Elon Musk said, “Tesla is already producing and introducing iron phosphate batteries for mid-range automobiles through the Shanghai Giga Factory, and the monocell structure that Apple claims is an electrically impossible structure.” Evaluated as.
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