Founder and chapter Tesla Ilon Mask suspended the sale of electric vehicles for bitcoins due to non-environmental way to obtain this cryptocurrency. He wrote about it on his page in twitter .
Tesla suspended the sale of vehicles with the help of bitcoine. We are concerned about the fast-growing use of fossil fuels, especially coal, which has the worst rates of harmful emissions, for the production and transaction of Bitcoin, “wrote Mask.
He added that the company will not sell Bitcoins until the mining of cryptocurrencies will be carried out using “sustainable energy sources”. According to the billionaire, it is impossible to allow the development of cryptocurrency to occur at the expense of “huge prices for the environment.”
Earlier it was reported that Tesla is going to revise its plans to increase the production of electric vehicles in China and conceived to refuse to buy additional land to expand its factory in Shanghai.
At the beginning of the year, Ilon Mask had an unexpected support for Bitcoin. In February, his company Tesla reported on investments in Bitcoin in the amount of 1.5 billion dollars. At the end of April, it became known that the company had already earned more than $ 100 million on such an investment. Later, the company allowed American customers with electric vehicles to pay bitcoins.