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perry5000
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Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk S...
$500M taxpayer-backed loans are available to anyone, now?
sp332
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ImprovedSilence
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It looks like ford has about 5B in loans from them. And Fisker Automotive has a lil more than Tesla in loans. and Fisker makes some damn sexy cars:
https://www.google.com/search?q=fisker&oe=utf-8&aq=t...
timdorr
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Yep, they're definitely hot cars:
http://jalopnik.com/5956179/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-h...
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patrickk
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Elon Musk doesn't regard Fisker as a serious competitor. He said something like: "Fisker is headed up by a car designer, not an engineer. The reason we haven't had electric cars isn't because they looked bad" (or words to that effect).
j2bax
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Sure... Anyone that has the skill and know how to build a company that can build a game changing product like Tesla has...
jug6ernaut
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Gotta love opinions.
cryptoz
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