Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk said he reached out to Tim Cook of Apple Inc “during the darkest days of the Model 3 program” to address the prospect of Apple purchasing Tesla Inc for “1/10th of our present value.”
“He refused to take the meeting,” Musk said in response to a Twitter chain that quoted a Reuters article on Apple targeting 2024 to manufacture a commercial car that could be in.
Since 2014, when it first began to build its own car from scratch, the iPhone maker’s automotive efforts, branded as Project Titan, have progressed unevenly.
