More Reasons That Tesla Will Get Acquired Eventually

Tesla Motors Inc TSLA announced better than estimated sales of its Model S on Friday after the markets closed for trade following which the stock of the company rallied significantly on Monday.

Re/code co-executive editor Kara Swisher was recently on CNBC to discuss why she thinks Tesla would be bought by another company and who could the possible buyers be.

At Some Point

"I always think this company is going to probably get bought at some point," Swisher said. "But Elon is really trying to build this into a real thing and it's very difficult to build a car company in any environment and […] the question is –will they (consumers) buy it (Tesla's cars) across the country, can they make these cars less expensive, can it become a more common car versus the very high end sort of elite car that it still is."

The Buyers

Swisher was asked who could buy Tesla. She replied, "Anyone from Apple to GM could buy it. [It's kind of] an interesting trend that's happening with these cars and they are definitely pioneering it and I think the difficulty at any pioneer, I mean there is an old saying that the plains are covered with the bodies of pioneers."

"I think that electric cars and these kind of self driving cars are way of the future and it is capturing the interest of all kinds of silicon valley companies like Google and Apple and others and the question is will they try to get ahead by using Tesla to do that or will they step over it with their own versions of their car and it has definitely captured the imagination."
"It's just very difficult to run a car company, it's very expensive, it's very intensive, the battery issues. Elon has talked a lot about battery issues. Takes a lot of capital and that's the question is - could a small company do that?" Swisher concluded.