{"id":42715,"date":"2021-05-18T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42715"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:27:38","slug":"tesla-rival-rules-out-bitcoin-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tesla-rival-rules-out-bitcoin-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla rival rules out Bitcoin investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electric-vehicle maker Fisker does not currently plan to invest in Bitcoin or accept cryptocurrency as payment. This was stated by the company&#8217;s CEO Henrik Fisker in an interview with CNBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiskerInc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@FiskerInc<\/a> CEO <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrikfisker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@henrikfisker<\/a> says the company won\u2019t accept bitcoin for payment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abI just don\u2019t think it\u2019s a sustainable solution. It\u2019s not environmentally-friendly, and we would not do that.\u00bb<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24FSR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">$FSR<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/RWxYQUAgrv\\\">pic.twitter.com\/RWxYQUAgrv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC\u2019s Closing Bell (@CNBCClosingBell) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBCClosingBell\/status\/1394390262986772487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The energy demands associated with Bitcoin mining, he said, run contrary to the company&#8217;s mission to build \u201cthe most environmentally safe cars in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u00abI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a sustainable solution. It\u2019s not environmentally friendly,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fisker did not rule out that, in the future, the company might revisit its decision to accept cryptocurrency payments, but for now Fisker is not focused on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February, another electric-car maker Tesla disclosed investments <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-tesla-invested-1-5-billion-in-bitcoin-the-assets-price-rose-to-44800\">$1.5 billion in Bitcoin<\/a>, and in March Elon Musk said <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-says-tesla-has-begun-selling-electric-cars-for-bitcoin\">the company would begin accepting payments in cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, as early as May, Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">paused the sale<\/a> of electric vehicles for Bitcoin over concerns about the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>The company pledged not to sell the coins it holds and to resume cryptocurrency sales once mining meets its sustainability criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Elon Musk said the automaker still holds Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\u201d\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electric-vehicle maker Fisker does not currently plan to invest in Bitcoin or accept cryptocurrency as payment, CEO Henrik Fisker said in an interview with CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,52,1522],"class_list":["post-42715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-investments","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"71","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42716,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42715\/revisions\/42716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}