Elon Musk considered the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple. Price? 1/10 of current value, approximately US $ 60 billion
Elon Musk wanted to sell Tesla to Apple for 10 percent of its current value. These were, he acknowledged, "the darkest days" of the Model 3 program, during which Musk devoted himself to building an affordable electric car, the Tesla Model 3.
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The then head of Apple Tim Cook did not dare to meet, probably decided that he was not interested in this business (source). It is not known when the situation arose, but since Apple has been working on its electric car since 2014, rumors that it was 2013 can be confirmed.
On the other hand, the darkest days of the Model 3 we know were in 2017 and 2018, when Musk announced that Tesla was only a few weeks away from bankruptcy. Except that then Apple was also gradually persuading itself to "clean up" the order in Project Titan, whose goal was to create the iCara / iMoch. And at this time, Tim Cook may be skeptical.
One tenth of the current value of Tesla, according to calculations by the portal Electrek, is about 60 billion dollars (equivalent to 222 billion zlotys)..
By the way, Musk commented on the concept of a "mono-cell", which is used in Apple's new electric car, as "electrochemically impossible" due to the fact that the maximum voltage is too low (~ 4 instead of ~ 400 volts). He also suggested that it could be something that we already predicted yesterday, that is, structural cells, which are also a "container" for charge and are the basis of the battery and the car (source).
Opening photo: Elon Musk at the Mars Society Virtual Conference (c) The Mars Society / YouTube
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