An iFruit Car??

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk confirmed to Bloomberg TV that he indeed held discussions with Apple Inc.

Whether the two Silicon Valley giants explored some kind of a deal, Musk won’t say.

“We had conversations with Apple,” Musk told Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu on Wednesday. “I can’t comment on whether those revolved around any kind of acquisition.”

Liu asked Musk to respond to an exclusive report in Sunday’s Chronicle that he met with Apple’s mergers and acquisitions chief Adrian Perica in Cupertino last spring.

Musk remained cagey throughout the interview. When Liu asked Musk whether Tesla was up for sale, he said this:

“I think that’s very unlikely because we need to stay super focused on achieving a compelling – creating a compelling mass market electric car. And I’d be very concerned in any kind of acquisition scenario, whoever it is, that’d be become distracted from that – from that task which has always been the – the driving goal of Tesla.”

Note that Musk didn’t exactly rule out a deal. Spoken like a true politician.