Maybe There Won't Be a Stock Offering: "Report: Tesla’s gigafactory could get $1B from Panasonic, suppliers" (TSLA)

One of the concerns of the longs (and hopes of the shorts) was that Tesla would use the recent runup to raise some money.

"I can distribute more stock on upticks than I can on down"
-E.H. Harriman, railroad man and Wall Street pro.

From Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOM:

A week after Tesla confirmed that it plans to build a huge battery making “gigafactory” in the U.S., more news is trickling out about it. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei (via Reuters), Tesla’s battery partner Panasonic could join up with other battery suppliers to fund the gigafactory with $1 billion.

On Tesla’s earnings call last week Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company would reveal more information about the battery factory this week including more details about partners and funding. An analyst said recently that Tesla would be working with Panasonic and Sanyo to fund the battery factory with $2 billion, which could be built in New Mexico.

Tesla says future growth of its cars — which are powered by thousands of lithium ion batteries packaged up into a battery pack — are constrained by world battery production....MORE