Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the electric car startup was in talks with Apple and has announced that the Model X will be delayed another year.
Palo Alto, Calif.-headquartered Tesla will remain a one-car company until 2015, the new launch time for the Model X SUV, The Verge reported via Bloomberg.
The Model X was originally announced to be released in 2013 with a base price of $49,900 and then pushed back to 2014.
After the second rescheduling of the model's release, Musk cited his "perfectionist" nature and said the car wasn't quite ready.
"It's damn hard to make an SUV in particular that is beautiful and yet incredibly functional at the same time," Musk told Bloomberg, "it's a harder design problem than the Model S."
Calling himself "a perfectionist when it comes to product design," Musk said that he isn't "completely happy with the product" yet.
Tesla, whose popular electric car recently became registered in every state, has also been busy with expanding business into Asia and Europe, Musk told Bloomberg.
After being asked about rumors that Tesla was in deal talks with Apple last spring, Musk confirmed that meetings took place but declined to give any further details, simply saying Tesla "had conversations" with the tech giant.
When Bloomberg's Betty Liu asked about the possibility of a Tesla sale, Musk said that event is "very unlikely."
As announced in 2012, the Tesla Model X will be an electric crossover vehicle that will seat up to seven passengers and their luggage, according to The Verge.
The vehicle is described as "somewhere between a sport utility and a car" and has "60 percent of its content" in common with Tesla's Model S.
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