San Francisco/New York — Tesla Motors and SolarCity shareholders are poised to give Elon Musk a shot at perhaps his boldest plan yet, by signing off on the combination of two clean-energy companies with a track record of fleeting profits and frequent fundraising needs. All that stands between the marriage of companies Musk says stayed separate as an "accident of history" is the tally of shareholder voting results by each company on Thursday. Tesla has lost about $4.8bn in market capitalisation since the electric-car maker offered to buy the solar systems installer on June 21, while SolarCity’s has declined by about $3.6bn. Musk has laid out his vision for a vertically integrated clean-energy behemoth offering consumers electric cars, solar roofs and batteries for the home. Tesla has forecast SolarCity would add $1bn in revenue to the combined company in 2017 and $500m in cash to its balance sheet over the next three years. "We fully expect the deal to go through," Jeffrey Osborne, a...
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