Elon Musk “proposed to buy Tesla from Apple two years ago, but was rejected”

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“Tesla’s Dark Ages, tried to meet Apple CEO, but was denied even meeting”

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk belatedly said he approached Apple CEO Tim Cook to sell Tesla two years ago, but was eventually turned down.

According to foreign media such as Reuters and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 22nd (local time), Musk posted a post on Twitter that day, saying, “I requested a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2018 to find out the possibility of selling Tesla, but it was rejected.” Said.

Musk said, “In the’Dark Age of the Model 3 Program,’ when Tesla was struggling to expand production, I was planning to approach CEO Tim Cook and ask if Apple had any plans to buy Tesla. “He said. But Cook refused to meet.

The current Tesla market cap is $66.9 billion, and it was officially incorporated into the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index on the 21st. The Dark Age of the Model 3 program, which Musk mentioned in the tweet that day, was a period when Musk had a hard time expanding the production of Model 3 to the extent that he called it’production hell.

At the time, Model 3 was the key model to determine whether Tesla could survive. Production began in 2017, but continued production disruptions put Tesla at serious risk. Now it has settled down and has greatly surpassed the sales of Model S and Model X and put Tesla on the rock.

Meanwhile, Apple is known to have once been interested in Tesla. Ross Capital Partners’ Craig Irwin said in an interview with CNBC last year that Apple had considered acquiring Tesla for $240 a share in 2013, but it was eventually broken.