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Palo Alto (dpa) - The US electric car manufacturer Tesla is opening up to digital currencies.
Star entrepreneur Elon Musk's group plans to accept payments in Bitcoin for purchases of cars and other products in the near future, according to a message to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition, Tesla itself has bought bitcoins worth a total of 1.5 billion dollars (1.25 billion euros).
As part of a new corporate policy, it was decided that Tesla can also invest in digital assets in the future, but also in gold and other financial assets that have not yet been defined.
The Bitcoin price drove the news on the online trading platform Bitstamp to a new record high of more than 43,000 dollars on Monday.
Tesla boss Musk had recently given the oldest and best-known cryptocurrency a strong boost by placing the hashtag “#Bitcoin” on his Twitter page.
In addition, he was recently made jointly responsible for a price jump in the digital money Dogecoin, which originally started as a joke currency.
Musk had repeatedly tweeted about it and, among other things, shared a cover picture of a similar sounding dog magazine ("Douge").
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Tesla notification to the SEC