I think Chinese players would be interested, but in this political climate it's a non-starter. What Western or Japanese car company would want to buy Tesla? They own some buildings, a slightly tarnished brand, a few car models - and massive liabilities for warranties (think low M3 build quality), leases, lifetime free supercharging, lawsuits, God knows what else. Culture and structure of the business would be very difficult to integrate with any established automaker. IMO they are headed for liquidation.
Seems like TSLA is setting up to blame "delivery logistics" for failure to build/sell as many cars as expected in Q3 - when demand constraint is the more likely reality.
Ding, ding, ding. Who wants to take on that liability? Better off scrapping it for parts to the highest bidder, like the Chinese. Battery goes one way, licensing/production rights another, and whoever is dumb enough gets the solar panel business.
Looks like the demi God has finally blown up. A pity he didn't take my advice and go hybrid for his cars. Battery technology just isn't good enough yet and it may never be, short of putting in a mini nuclear reactor. BMW's hybrid is apparently an excellent all round car and very fast too, At 130 miles per gallon extra economical.