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Tesla takes money out of people's pockets (the tax payers)and gives rich people fancy cars to drive. Not sure how to celebrate that... They payed back their l
by mempko 13y ago
Tesla takes money out of people's pockets (the tax payers)and gives rich people fancy cars to drive. Not sure how to celebrate that...
They payed back their loan to the tax payers by taking out a loan from someone else, not by selling a car at a profit and making a successful product.
- tptacek 13y agoThank you for providing an actual middlebrow dismissal for comparative purposes.
- vpeters25 13y agoI think they took a loan guarantee from DOE because nobody else was lending money back then and they needed funding to develop the Model S.
- dnautics 13y agoIf my memory serves me right, they didn't need that funding to develop the Model S, they just took it to make the whole process a little bit less risky.