Tesla to make "exciting announcement on Thursday" (correction Tuesday)

[jvonbokel]

@elonmusk:
"Really exciting @TeslaMotors announcement coming on Thursday. Am going to put my money where my mouth is in v major way."

Twitter / elonmusk: Really exciting @TeslaMotors ...

[Thread Summary]

Per a follow up tweet. The announcement was pushed back:
‏@elonmusk

"Slight change of date to ensure no end of quarter distractions -- will be Tues next week."


The announcement turns out to be a lease program:
Tesla Unveils Revolutionary New Finance Product | Press Releases | Tesla Motors



Summarize the best guesses for the announcement below:

• Tesla reveals gen3 concept
• Official announcement of gen3 (however no concept car yet)
• More Superchargers to be installed.
• Tesla buys Fisker.
• Separate Model S production to be set up in Europe.
• Tesla/Elon to set up financing for the Model S.
• Free solar for all Model S owners and all future Tesla car customers
• Tesla to use "Phinergy" 1,000 mile Aluminum-Air battery in 2017/Gen3
• Tesla to issue stock buy-back program to enhance shareholder value/eventually take TSLA private
• Elon planning to be the first CEO to circle Mars with upcoming 2017 launch window
• Google and Tesla to work together on a self driving electric car
• Apple and Tesla to work on or develop the "iCar" (or Apple to invest heavily/buy Tesla, solving Teslas cash flow issues)
• New battery packs/ Model S variants
• Elon to literally "eat" his fortune
• Tesla and SolarCity merge. Elon buys huge stake in new company.
• Announcement of the tech tweeted as "some really cool tech that we can't talk about yet".
• Tesla Model S leasing program.
• Completion of 10,000th Model S production vehicle and exercise of 6.7M shares of stock.
• EM: "in the future, all modes of transport will be electric - with the ironic exception of rockets". Elon will provide funding for new Tesla daughter that heads into electric aircraft development.
• Elon repaying the DOE loan from his pocket
• Teslamotors building the trucks that will transport SpaceX rockets
• Elon to purchase Uber and convert the entire fleet to Model S sedans
• Elon to fund development of a Solar Powerplant backed up with Tesla batteries.
• Tesla will buy a shuttered automobile assembly plant in Europe for future production of Gen3
• Expansion of Supercharging network and licensing its usage to other EV companies
• Elon starts a new company to finance Tesla automobiles
• Tesla reveals Model S with 110+kWh battery pack option

[yobigd20]

Elon's twitter feed just posted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/316260319360061440


"Really exciting @TeslaMotors announcement coming on Thursday. Am going to put my money where my mouth is in v major way."

[ADN_ModelS]

TSLA going private? Leveraged Buyout financed by Elon...

[Stoneymonster]

From a tweet a few minutes ago:

"Really exciting @TeslaMotors announcement coming on Thursday. Am going to put my money where my mouth is in v major way."

Let the wild speculation begin!

[Mycroft]

He tweets that and the stock rockets up over 4%. Connected? Inquiring minds would like to know.

[ElSupreme]

TSLA going private? Leveraged Buyout financed by Elon...

This would spark a short squeeze for sure.

The 'my money where my mouth is' (emphasis mine) statement is quite intriguing.


And what is with his new "Show me the monkey!" picture? I do have about 6 of those screaming monkeys though.

[dadaleus]

Interesting that he refers to his money, not the company's. Rather than a buyout, my best guess is he's investing a bunch more cash in the company to help fund its next efforts (superchargers, model X, whathaveyou). This is after the company paid back its loans early. If true, it means he'd rather own more equity than let the government fund the effort at an interest rate. Pretty savvy as long as his bet that Tesla succeeds wins (which like most on here, I strongly suspect he will win this bet).

Other funny thing about the way he says this is that Elon has always put his money where his mouth is. He made huge personal investments in getting SpaceX going and keeping it and Tesla going along, to the point of running out of cash. (Which is way different than being broke BTW especially with all of his equity in these companies, but still pretty amazing.)

[ElSupreme]

Other funny thing about the way he says this is that Elon has always put his money where his mouth is. He made huge personal investments in getting SpaceX going and keeping it and Tesla going along, to the point of running out of cash. (Which is way different than being broke BTW especially with all of his equity in these companies, but still pretty amazing.)

I often look at the insider trading of TSLA, and it always is people exercise and then sell it off right away. A few sales here and there. And then there is Elon, always seemingly buying more. And I would venture that he knows something that we don't.

[PopSmith]

Due to the "money where my mouth is" comment, I would also think TSLA could go private. If I remember right Elon mentioned that the company decided to go public because it was a more viable option at the time vs raising cash privately. (Someone please gently correct me if I'm off-base there!)

Maybe Elon is going to pay off the government loan all by himself, although that seems very unlikely.

If it wasn't for Model X being delayed I'd say it's something to do with a sooner-than-anticipated BlueStar announcement (or possible reveal).

Things I'm not expecting it to be:
- A major expansion of stores or superchargers.
- Another vehicle (i.e. a truck).