Musk says Apple passed on Tesla acquisition three years ago

Enlarge / A Tesla Model 3 is seen in the general assembly line at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, in July 2018. (credit: Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A few years ago, Elon Musk tried to interest Apple CEO Tim Cook in buying Tesla, Musk said in a Tuesday tweet. "He refused to take the meeting," Musk added.

According to Musk, this occurred in the "darkest days of the Model 3 program"-most likely sometime in late 2017 or early 2018. Musk recently revealed that at one point early in the Model 3 manufacturing process, Tesla was "about a month" away from bankruptcy.

"The Model 3 ramp was extreme stress & pain for a long time - from mid 2017 to mid 2019," Musk wrote in November. "Production & logistics hell."

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