He's done things like this before when he wanted to take Tesla private... so maybe.

>Why wouldn't you do this before making an all-cash offer at a significant premium above what any analyst would have valued it at?

I don't know this answer either. I'm trying to decide whether Elon (or his investors) were pushy to get it closed and failed to get the deal done before the market nosedived, or, he and his team are deliberately misinterpreting the whole, requesting information for "reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement." That seems to be a clause intended for information need related to closing the deal, but might be getting interpreted as a due diligence clause (since no due diligence was done).