Apple CEO Tim Cook has said Never spoke to Elon on buying his 'failed' Tesla car biz in 2017

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he never addressed Tesla CEO Elon Musk about purchasing his bombed electric vehicle two or three years back.

Musk in December a year ago tweeted that he offered Cook to sell his electric vehicle organization at one-10th of its worth during the striving time frame in 2017 however the Apple CEO wouldn't meet him.

In a meeting with The New York Times on Monday, Cook said that discussions won't ever occur.

"You know, I've never addressed Elon, despite the fact that I have extraordinary appreciation and regard for the organization he's constructed," Cook was cited as saying.

Musk had said that during the "haziest days" for Tesla Model 3, he needed to auction the organization.

"During the haziest days of the Model 3 program, I connected with Tim Cook to examine the chance of Apple obtaining Tesla (for 1/10 of our present worth). He would not take the gathering," Musk had said in a tweet.

Musk's tweet came as reports restored that Apple is intending to present its first electric, self-governing vehicle in 2024.

Musk had said during a media meet in 2018 that his electric vehicle startup was near death inside "single-digit weeks".

He said that the organization almost failed in 2008, the year he took over as CEO, and that at the time Tesla had "not exactly a 10% probability to succeed."

Tesla and Model 3, nonetheless, endure and the organization proceeded to deliver Model Y SUV and new vehicles like the Cybertruck.

As indicated by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk is presently the second most extravagant man on earth after Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

Tesla a week ago said it created 180,338 vehicles and conveyed almost 185,000 vehicles in the main quarter of 2021.

In the meeting, Cook additionally offered a few clues about increased reality and the self-governing vehicles.

"I'm now seeing AR take off in a portion of these zones with utilization of the telephone. What's more, I think the guarantee is considerably more noteworthy later on," Cook said.

"We love to coordinate equipment, programming, and administrations, and discover the convergence points of those on the grounds that we imagine that is the place where the enchantment happens," Cook added.