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Re:Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity by jaredhansen on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:31PM (#12406665)
>there is no reason for Tesla to have purchased Solar City. It was an extremely financially stupid and ego-maniacal deal...

I think you're speculating. There are lots of plausible reasons. For example, see S+C's Alex Danco's series on this: https://medium.com/@alexdanco/in-a-world-of-energy-mainframe...

Could it all go horribly wrong? Well sure, of course. But that doesn't mean that the Tesla board is composed of idiots.

edit: See also this thread, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12402366

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Re:Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity by forgetsusername on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:37PM (#12406717)
>I think you're speculating.

There are many solar companies. Perhaps there are synergies with Tesla. But why SolarCity, specifically? What was outstanding about them as a target?

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Re:Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity by whamlastxmas on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:50PM (#12408314)
It's silly to expect someone to prove the point for you. Either argue why SolarCity wasn't a good choice or go ahead and assume that Elon Musk isn't a total idiot and had good reasons to buy it.
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Re:Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity by farcical_tinpot on Saturday September 03, 2016 @08:44PM (#12422037)
Errrr, it's haemorrhaging cash? There are plenty of other solar companies that don't have those overheads and would be cheaper.
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