Why Tesla to 1.5 billion euros of shares

Posted on 19-05-2016 at 7:33 by Dizono – 32 Comments”

Elon Musk goes again with the pet along with the investors, as the liquidity position of his fledgling car manufacturer what to strengthen.

And that is desperately needed, because Tesla has additional capital necessary to the production of the Model 3 grand to convert. This car seems to be an instant success, which after the showing of two prototypes already 373.000 orders were written. Yes, the prototype, because only next month will the design of the Model 3 will be the final. There were even restrictions imposed on the pre-registrations, the number of orders is not too explosive to rise.

According to Tesla, the large number of voorinschrijvers achieved without a single dollar to spend on advertising, and with just a few of the posts on social media. The company thinks with a minimum of effort even more people excited to be able to make up for this “affordable” elektrowagen. Only then should they be able that to build cars.

Musk has indicated in 2018, all 500,000 cars per year want to build, roughly ten times more than last years together were screwed. To make this scaling possible to make a lot of money and so are there for the umpteenth time new shares are issued. In total, Tesla since 2010, already 4.5 billion dollars raised by the issue of shares and there should now be a further 1.7 billion dollar on top. After publication of the news dropped the price of Tesla light, with 2.2 per cent to 204,66 dollar per share, writes Reuters.