The texts between Saudi PIF and Elon Musk confirm they were serious about taking Tesla private.

Notice that they asked for a Saudi factory. This was also a term of their deal to take Lucid private. The fact that they did the deal (just not with Tesla) shows they were serious.

Whole Mars Catalog (Supervised) The head of Saudi PIF committed unequivocally to take Tesla private with me, as witnessed by the Tesla CFO and several others. That is why I said funding was secured.

Pranay Pathole Whole Mars Catalog (Supervised) The San Francisco office of the SEC were shameless puppets of Wall St shortseller sharks, while doing nothing to protect actual shareholders. That is why I lost all respect for them.