Tesla has trademarked “Teslaquila”, a tequila branded after his electric car company. The combination and alcohol and cars is always a good one … not.
The BBC reports
The product started as an April Fool’s joke when Musk claimed Tesla was going bankrupt and that he had been found “passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by ‘Teslaquilla’ bottles, the tracks of dried tears still visible on his cheeks”.
But according to CNBC, which broke the story, Musk’s company has now filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office to use the name for “distilled agave liquor” and “distilled blue agave liquor”.
The booze business, if he should ever seriously decide to enter it, would not be Musk’s first foray into bizarre sidelines. Earlier this year Musk announced he had sold 20,000 flamethrowers branded after his Boring infrastructure business. “Say hello to my little friend,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “Obviously, a flamethrower is a super terrible idea. Definitely don’t buy one. Unless you like fun.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/12/elon-musk-teslaquila-tesla-tequila-trademark
