Tesla founder Elon Musk on Tuesday said he once approached Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, to suggest the iPhone maker acquire his then-struggling electric car company — but that Mr Cook “refused to take the meeting”.
Mr Musk tweeted the anecdote on Tuesday afternoon after reports that Apple was making progress in its own effort to develop an electric car for consumers.
He had contacted Mr Cook “during the darkest days of the Model 3 program”, according to the tweet — presumably a reference to mid-2017, when Tesla came within a month of bankruptcy in what Mr Musk once called “manufacturing hell”.
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