US resurrects green energy loan program that helped put Tesla on the map - The Verge

General Motors’ battery joint venture receives $2.5 billion loan from a Department of Energy program that helped put Tesla on the map.

First loan since 2010 goes to GMs battery joint venture Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Energys Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, which famously helped… [+4050 chars]

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