As
AutoblogGreen first pointed out, a mysterious
video surfaced Sunday on YouTube in which a Tesla Motors investor blabs about an upcoming financing round, which would be significant considering
all the financial troubles the electric-car maker ran into several months ago. In the shaky cellphone video, the investor - which
Gawker identifies as Victor Morgenstern, chairman of Chicago private-equity fund Valor Equity Partners - offers to take a “young man” for a ride around the block in his Tesla Roadster, and just as he begins driving he answers a phone call and says, “I think there’s going to be a big announcement coming Monday or Tuesday which should, No. 1, make people big believers that the [Model S electric sedan] is going to be produced…it’s an investment from a strategic….” The person who filmed the video and posted it on YouTube, is apparently a 14-year-old named Mike, according to
his Facebook account linked from the video. Tesla hasn’t announced anything this week, and it’s not clear yet whether this is a scoop, a hoax, or, most likely judging by the timing and substance of the phone call, a bizarre publicity stunt….