The procurement forecast of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has removed the mention of Elon Musks Tesla Inc. in relation to a planned tank purchase of 400 million US dollars after reports have been made on Wednesday.
The December version of the document contained a “armored Tesla” budget element that extends for five years and begins in 2025. However, the document was revised to remove the name of Tesla. This was followed by reports on the corporate's nickname within the Drop Site News and The New York Times.
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Tesla's name was published within the document near BMW AG, whose armored X5 and X7 Suvs also desires to buy the Foreign Ministry. The name of the German company stays on the list, while Tesla's was cut out, in order that the contract over 400 million US dollars – still within the planning phase – is listed for a generic name of “armored electric vehicles”.
Tesla or one other automobile manufacturer was not awarded a government mandate for the production of Panzer -EVS, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said in an announcement. The request, which was first admitted in the course of the bidges, was placed on ice and there are not any current plans to spend it, said the spokesman.
Representatives of Tesla didn’t reply to inquiries about comments after the regular business hours.
Musk posted X on the Social Media platform X that he was “pretty safe” that Tesla didn’t receive 400 million US dollars. The Tesla shares rose by 3.5%in New York at 9:34 a.m.
The sensitivity to potential conflicts of interest with Musk's overlapping empire of six corporations should proceed. His SpaceX, which starts rockets for the US military and Ferries astronauts to and from the international space station for NASA, has already awarded billions of dollars of contracts.
A big government regulation, on this case most certainly for Teslas Cybertruck, could be a substantial thrust. The cybertruck is in-built Tesla's factory in Austin, Texas, and costs 79,990 US dollars from tax incentives. Musk is an enormous fan of military history and spoke in August on the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. Although some people imagine that the cyberruck could sooner or later roam the surface of Mars, Musk frequently referred to his military applications.
“I just wanted to do a futuristic battle tank that looked like he was out of Blade Runner or extraterrestrial or something,” said Musk in a podcast for automotive news in 2020.
(Updates with comment from the Foreign Ministry in Fifth paragraph and Tesla Share-Price activity in seventh paragraph)
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