Musk: if GM had insisted on being an electric car, there would have been no Tesla.

CTOnews.com, June 20, according to Benzinga, Tesla CEO Musk said in a speech at the Viva Tech Technology Conference in Paris recently that Tesla is what it is today because GM failed to do so after it launched the world's first modern electric car, the EV1, in the late 1990s.

▲ source Pexels Musk said bluntly at the meeting: "I look forward to the EV2, EV3 and other follow-up models, if they really do, they do not need Tesla."

However, Mr Musk said GM recalled all EV1 and smashed them at the dump for reasons still unknown. Musk stressed that customers liked the car so much that they even went to the junkyard to hold a candlelight vigil for them: "it's like someone was killed." if someone holds such an event because they like your product very much, maybe you should do more. "

▲ GM EV1 Musk said that if GM produced more electric vehicles, they would become today's leaders in electric vehicles, but they did not do so, so there is a demand for Tesla.

CTOnews.com has previously reported that GM and Ford have decided to adopt NACS, the North American charging standard adopted by Tesla, a move that will enable nearly 70 per cent of US electric car owners to use the same charging standards.