They didn’t give it they lent it, along with billions of dollars to other automakers:
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy is also lending $5.9 billion to Ford to retool factories in five states. Nissan will receive $1.6 billion to refurbish a factory in Tennessee to produce electric cars.
The loan was paid back 9 years early in 2013.
The loan was paid back 9 years early in 2013.
Exactly! I am a man of my word and I keep my promises.
Someone roleplaying and pretending to be Musk is definitely an account to add to the block list.
Don’t get me wrong, fuck the peice of shit that is Elon Musk for many reasons but this loan isn’t one of them.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise said Wednesday the workers should be allowed to proceed with class action status because Tesla’s alleged “pattern or practice” of failing to take reasonable steps to prevent discrimination was a common issue for all the Black workers at the Fremont plant.
Sounds pretty fucked up and newsworthy but should probably be it’s own post. Not sure what this has to do with the loan.
He took a bunch of government loans and started a discriminative, sexist, racist manufacturing business. It’s tangential but definitely related.
Nationalize Muskrat.
Thanks, Obama
Yeah he was cool when he was giving me money.
Now everyone forgot about that “long form birth certificate”. Better send him back to Africa.
It’s one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion