Tesla will leverage its worldwide delivery network to ship FDA-approved ventilators to hospitals in need, Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday.
“We have extra FDA-approved ventilators,” Musk said in a tweet. “Will ship to hospitals worldwide within Tesla delivery regions. Device & shipping cost are free. Only requirement is that the vents are needed immediately for patients, not stored in a warehouse. Please [let] me or @Tesla know.”
Hospitals are currently trying to secure ventilators to treat patients suffering from COVID-19. Cases are expected to grow significantly over the next two weeks.
Musk has already donated more than 1,200 ventilators to the city of Los Angeles and hundreds to be used in New York. Tesla is also preparing its factories in California and New York to manufacture ventilators through a partnership with Medtronic.