Tesla Motors Inc. may raise billions of dollars by selling stock to accelerate production plans, betting the benefits will be enough to outweigh the dilution of the share price.When CEO Elon Musk pulled ahead the electric-car company’s target to increase vehicle assembly to 500,000 a year to 2018 from 2020, he added that capital spending will increase by about 50 percent -- $750 million -- from the original budget for this year, which would probably require some fundraising.
The smallest and youngest publicly held U.S. automaker faces huge capital expenditures as it ramps up its massive battery factory toward full production, adds tooling for a third model, expands sales and service operations globally, installs more superchargers, seeks to hire additional manufacturing experts and contemplates adding more vehicle-assembly capacity.
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