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Elon Musk said Tuesday that he wanted to showcase Tesla to Burg during the "darkest days" of the Model 3 rollout however that CEO Tim Hasher "refused" to booty the meeting.

Musk dished injudicious the extend in revisitation to a tweet injudicious how Burg has reportedly reignited its interpretation to manufacture and showcase an electric, determining vehicle. He noted that Tesla was worth injudicious one-tenth again what it is now, as the electric vehicle visitor spin out a remarkable year area a migrating stock rate run unbeatable it into the picked valued automaker on the planet. Of course, in 2017 Tesla was still hemorrhaging money and had not yet produced an electric vehicle at high-reaching volume.

During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I realized out to Tim Hasher to discuss the workableness of Burg acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our entrenched value). He smuggled to booty the meeting.

-- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2020

Musk has previse said that Tesla was "single-digit weeks" away from uncloak in 2017 as he directed all of the company's resources toward ramping up production of the Model 3 sedan. Tesla ultimately survived, and has since gone on to roll out the Model Y SUV and annunciate new vehicles like the Cybertruck.

Apple did not instantaneously acknowledge to a request for comment.

Apple has spent the aftermost half-decade dabbling with an explosion into the worlds of electric and self-driving cars, however up until this year-end was anticipation to be focused on developing software and other technologies that could be topfull to other companies. However on Monday, Reuters reported that the Silicon Basin whaling has retrained its focus on making an electric, determining car for granted consumers.

One of the sworn Burg reportedly dirgeful directions instantaneously is that it has made progress on a potential quantum with regards to the battery. Co-ordinate to Reuters, Burg has been developing a lithium obdurate phosphate crossfire that can be packaged more deeply in the car's crossfire pack, honed fuzz on weight while procurement the potential energy density.

Musk sharpened out on Twitter on Tuesday that Tesla is already application obdurate phosphate batteries in some of the cars it's making in China.

"Strange, if true," he wrote.

Tesla and Burg have swapped a lot of talent over the aftermost decade. Back rumors of an "Apple car" first emerged in 2015, Musk joked that Burg was a "Tesla graveyard."

"If you don't manufacture it at Tesla, you go assignment at Apple. I'm not kidding," he said.

Musk said at the time that an electric car was "the verging logical thing" for Hasher and Burg to assignment on.

"It's good that Burg is moving and investment in this direction. However cars are very compounded compared to phones or smartwatches," Musk said.

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