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The American electric car manufacturer is one of the most valuable companies in the world
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Due to a worldwide failure of the Tesla app, some owners of Tesla vehicles could not get into their cars on Friday.
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The app works like a key in Tesla's electric cars: it can be used to unlock and start the vehicles.
However, there is also a key card.
On Twitter, the head of Tesla, the multibillionaire Elon Musk, announced later on Friday - early Saturday morning according to German time - that the company's mobile application was back online.
A user from Seoul in South Korea reported on Twitter that he could not connect to his Model 3 via the iOS app.
Musk responded to this tweet with the reply "Checking ..." - check the error.
About five hours later, the Tesla boss wrote: »Should go online now.
Looks like we accidentally increased the verbosity of the network traffic.
We apologize and will take steps to prevent this from happening again. "
Around 500 people reported a malfunction
The online portal Electrek had first reported on the disruption.
According to information from Downdetector, an online provider that collects and provides data on app failures, around 500 people reported an error connecting to their Tesla on Friday evening in Germany.
The company Tesla had only recently hit the international headlines: CEO Elon Musk had sold Tesla shares worth a total of around five billion dollars.
It was his first share sale since 2016.
Musk owns approximately 17 percent of Tesla.
The company has annual sales of many billions of dollars.
The company is valued at more than $ 1.2 trillion.
This makes the US electric car manufacturer one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Musk is currently the richest person on earth.
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