in the face of a query on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk suddenly lost his mind.
On March 26th, local time, some analysts questioned that Tesla might lose its dominant position in the future. When interacting with netizens in the comment area of Twitter, Musk said that Tesla will become the world's largest company by market value, and then added in other replies that "it may be in a few months".
Within a few months, he surpassed Apple ... with clear stock price guidance signals. Musk, who consciously made an inappropriate speech, decisively deleted one of the replies. In fact, the "love-hate entanglement" between Tesla and Apple has a long history, and soon, Apple's electric car will be officially released, and the competition between the two will intensify in the future.
As of March 26th, Apple's market value was 2.3 trillion US dollars, making it the largest company in the world, while Tesla's latest market value was only 593.9 billion US dollars.
In other words, assuming Apple's share price remains the same, Tesla's share price needs to rise by 233% in the future to catch up with Apple's total market value.
Musk rarely takes the initiative to delete tweets, but this time he deleted them so quickly, which makes people think that he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for talking about Tesla's share price on Twitter, which caused Tesla's share price to fluctuate.
In 218, Musk made a famous "Tesla Privatization Acquisition Storm" on Twitter. Without any warning, he suddenly posted that he wanted to privatize Tesla at a price of $42 per share (totaling $72 billion), and Musk also claimed that the acquisition funds had been settled. However, in fact, Musk was not prepared for the acquisition at all, but these remarks led to fluctuations in Tesla's share price, which led to losses for investors. Since then, he has also tweeted that Tesla's "share price is too high", and then Tesla's share price fell sharply, losing a market value of $13 billion.
Finally, Musk and Tesla reached a settlement agreement with the SEC, and Musk and the company each paid $2 million as a fine.
Now, there are various indications that it is beyond doubt that Apple makes cars.
According to incomplete statistics, from 217 to now, Apple has obtained over 1 patented technologies for automobiles, covering autonomous driving, charging, in-vehicle system, car body structure optimization and many other aspects. Among them, the proportion of intelligent driving increased from 22% in 216 to 41% last year; Vehicle hardware innovation increased from 11% in 216 to 37% last year.
In addition, it is reported that the key supply chain in Taiwan Province, China confirmed that the Apple electric vehicle is expected to be officially released in the third quarter of 221, with a price of about 5, US dollars, which is at least two years earlier than the original plan, and its prototype has been tested on the road in California, USA.
Tesla is known as the "Apple in the automotive industry". What kind of competition will be staged when it really meets Apple's electric cars in the future is very exciting.