"Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering."

I don't get your negativity here. The fact that a major green tech company working with government support is able to shift financing over to the private market is, indeed, a remarkable feat and is absolutely something they have a right to crow about. The government, too — it's an example of a progressive system working as designed.

As for PR's impact to stock price...TSLA is 70% institutional owned. Anybody with a material stake in the company is savvy enough to know that they're not suddenly self-sustainably cash-flow positive.