Tesla Roadster Sport. Photo: Michael Graham Richard Who Wants to Own a Piece of Tesla? Tesla Motors has announced in a short press release that they have filed the S-1 Registration Statement required for an initial public offering (IPO). The date of the IPO and initial share price are not known yet, but the word on the street is that Tesla hopes to raise as much as $100 million This announcement has been expected from Tesla for a while, but the recent $465 million loan to Tesla by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) might… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tesla Files IPO Papers, Ending Production of Electric Roadster in 2011