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Tesla took a loan and fully repaid it. Issuance Date: January 2010, Loan fully repaid in May 2013 https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla https://www.energy.gov/lpo/

• jeromegv 3y ago
  But it is a government intervention. No banks were willing to give them that loan. Government gave them money when nobody else wanted.
• snotrockets 3y ago
  The loan was subsidized; commercial entities wouldn't give such a loan, hence even when repaid was a cost to the public. The idea, of course, is that this cost is paying by public good, but Tesla mis-stated the truth, and didn't grant back the public good it was supposed to.
• hyperhopper 3y ago
  Tesla got preferential treatment from a government entity and benefitted from public funds. Also the government subsided them by effectively paying a portion of every Tesla sale price for a long while.
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