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Wesoff: SolarCity would have gone bankrupt without Tesla's $2.6B acquisition
“If Tesla had not purchased SolarCity for 2.6 billion dollars plus the assumption of a couple of billion dollars worth of debt, SolarCity would for sure have gone bankrupt within a couple of months.”
Eric Wesoff Dec 22, 2021 ▶ 16:46 Elon Musk is person of the year. What's his Tesla legacy?
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Baglino: Having a battery offering was almost existential for SolarCity
“When SolarCity saw the coming sort of net metering change of policy, they knew that it was almost existential to them to have a great battery offering.”
Drew Baglino Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 5:26 The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business
Assertion Supported
Baglino: Tesla Built 1,000 'Powerwall Zero' Units From Model S Batteries
“Tesla had done a very early, we call it like, it doesn't even have a name, it was called, you could call it like Powerwall Zero. It was like a sort of cobbled together Model S battery module. I think we did a thousand of these early systems with SolarCity. And…”
Drew Baglino Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 4:39 The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business
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