Tesla’s Chinese rival Xpeng ‘stole’ Apple’s code, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Tesla has a Chinese rival that calls itself Xpeng. Xpeng, the Chinese electric car maker has recently been all over the news, as per reports, for equipping its cars with LiDar sensors, which the Tesla CEO thought was “expensive” and “unnecessary”.

Following this, someone on Twitter mentioned that with Xpeng using LiDar tech, they were now moving away from copying Tesla’s strategy. Musk replied to this by stating that Xpeng have an older version of Tesla’s software and do not have their NN inference computer.

Another Twitter user asked if the Chinese company had a copy of Tesla’s old source code, Musk said yes and added something more. Musk responded to that tweet by adding that Xpeng had stolen Apple’s code too, referring to an incident that took place in 2018.