The company burned through $1.16 billion in cash in the second quarter...estimates are that Tesla will burn through $4.7 billion of cash this year reaching a total $10.6 billion of cash burn as a public company by the end of 2017, which is unprecedented for a nearly $60 billion market cap company....
For comparison, Amazon burned $1.1 billion of cash over three years and was generating billions of dollars of cash when it reached a $60 billion valuation. Costco burned through $1.9 billion of cash over eight years, but its value topped out at roughly $15 billion during that time period.
Since the last Tesla bonds that were sold at near junk rating...if Tesla needs to raise capital again, it could become very ugly...