The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It’s one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded today to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy […]
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.
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.
Ok fam.
https://time.com/6836236/tesla-racism-lawsuit-black-workers-california/
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.