nberry:

Nick ,the incentive is Tesla, accelerated the EV credibility causing other car manufactures to jump in sooner than they were ready to do so. Losing Tesla now would send the wrong message. That said, our government is control by conservatives and I'm not sure they will want to save it.

First you make a huge assumption that the last bailout was correct and done in the interest of the shareholders. Second you assume Trump is conservative when in fact you have one of the most liberal republicans in office currently.  Lastly, regardless of liberal or conservative it simply is not good capitalism or effective management for the US to step in. The biggest problems with Tesla can not be cured by anyone taking it over.  As Whoopsy mentioned they are overvalued and there is no barrier to entry for someone to copy them. In that scenario the company must fail, the assets liquidated and a new company or competition will rise from the ashes. All the people involved with Tesla will find lots of other jobs doing profitable work. There are lots of jobs now that the grow ups who understand simple math are in charge.