Apple snubbed proposal to buy Tesla years back, Elon Musk says

iPhone maker reportedly hard at work on its own electric vehicle

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, and Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple is reportedly designing its own electric vehicle with a "breakthrough" monocell design that Musk calls "electrochemically impossible." © Reuters

YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writer

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- Apple once refused to meet with Tesla to potentially acquire the electric-vehicle company, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday.

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