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25 Jun 2009 00:15

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Tech: Tesla Motors gets some killer $$$$ behind it from the Feds

  • $465 million to build the kind of cars Detroit couldn’t source
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10 Jun 2009 18:37

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Biz, Tech: CHARGE! Bankrupt GM spends a ton of money on batteries

GM is so focused on trying to reinvent itself that it built this giant frickin’ $25 million lab to make giant batteries for electric cars source
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01 Apr 2009 22:56

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Biz, Politics: Editorial: Carmakers could have pulled the electric trigger long ago

  • In Michigan, we are doing everything we can to become the home of this new electric auto industry – and to the jobs this industry will create.
  • Gov. Jennifer Granholm • On the rebuilding of the industry that’s the cornerstone of that state. GM had a chance to do the electric car right and a captive audience, and they limited its appeal and let it die. It seems like a sad commentary on our country’s priorities that it takes near-bankruptcy to convince the auto industry to properly give electric cars an actual shot. • source
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26 Mar 2009 21:26

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Tech: Let’s charge up a little information for you on Tesla

  • $57,400 cost of the all-electric Tesla Model-S sedan, which is a well-heeled startup company founded by the guy behind micropayment retailer PayPal
  • two number of top-ten hits Tesla had in the ’80s and ’90s; if they can rock that hard musically, just imagine what their cars are like source
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