URL below and ....no.......the spelling mistake in it is not mine.....

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/203717-elon-musk-google-almost-bought-telsa

A lot of people talk about Apple one day buying Tesla, but it turns out Google is the one that actually got close. First reported on Bloomberg, in an excerpt from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, an upcoming Ecco-HarperCollins book due out May 19th, in early 2013 Musk is said to have begun negotiating a deal to sell Tesla to the mega-search company through his friend Larry Page, who happens to be Google’s co-founder and CEO.

What’s interesting about this, aside from the obvious, is that Page even denied it when asked point blank in an interview for the book, saying “I don’t want to speculate on rumors,” and that a “car company is pretty far from what Google knows.” And yet, at the time, Tesla was starved for resources, and couldn’t quite make some of its flagship features like parking sensors and radar-assisted cruise control work right away.