Tesla completes acquisition of wireless charging company Wiferion
Tesla has completed the acquisition of wireless charging company Wiferion, just months after the automaker hinted the development of a wireless EV charging platform for its vehicles.
The German magazine Teslamag mentions an entry in the commercial register, wherein the shareholders had their intention to sell the startup Wiferion to Tesla International BV, the European subsidiary of the US company, certified by a notary in the middle of the month. A good week later, the time had actually come: A note appeared in the commercial register that the company name had been changed to Tesla Enginering GmbH.
As part of Tesla, Wiferion could help make electric car production there more efficient. In addition, the planned robot Optimus could also benefit from new options for wireless charging, and of course an electric car charging solution with Wiferion technology would also be conceivable. There was a hint of a Tesla wall box without cable at an Investor Day in early March.
Price for the takeover
The price for the takeover is not clear from the commercial register entries. But according to Teslamag you may be able to glean it from Tesla’s second-quarter financial report. The cash flow statement mentions an outflow of $ 76 million for business combinations. Because otherwise no takeovers by Tesla are known in the second quarter, the entire sum could have flowed to the former Wiferion shareholders. One of the largest of these was the High-Tech Gründerfonds set up by the federal government.
