Tesla had VW funding lined up to go private, report says

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at Tesla Store opening in Westfield Mall, London, Oct 2013After Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced earlier this month that he planned to take the company private, investment advisors hooked a big fish to provide the funding, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. In a long report about the Tesla board's deliberations over taking the company private, the Journal revealed that investment...