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Tesla replays DOE loan nine years early

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In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest. For the first seven years since its founding in 2003, Tesla was funded entirely with private funds, led by Elon Musk.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) No announced plans.

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