Elon Musk says Chinese rival Xpeng ‘stole’ Tesla and Apple codes

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Chinese electric car maker Xpeng of stealing the old source codes of his electric vehicle maker company.

Musk even alleged that Xpeng stole Apple’s code too.

In a chat with one of his followers on Twitter who asked why is Xpeng using LiDAR technology which is a big deviation from copying Tesla, Musk replied: “They have an old version of our software & don’t have our NN inference computer”.

He continued: “They stole Apple’s code too”.

In July 2019, Guangzhi Cao, a former engineer at Tesla admitted to uploading Tesla’s Autopilot source code to his iCloud account.