[perry5000]

$500M taxpayer-backed loans are available to anyone, now?

[sp332]

Instructions to sign up are right over here http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/

[ImprovedSilence]

It looks like ford has about 5B in loans from them. And Fisker Automotive has a lil more than Tesla in loans. and Fisker makes some damn sexy cars: https://www.google.com/search?q=fisker&oe=utf-8&aq=t...

[timdorr]

Yep, they're definitely hot cars: http://jalopnik.com/5956179/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-h...

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[patrickk]

Elon Musk doesn't regard Fisker as a serious competitor. He said something like: "Fisker is headed up by a car designer, not an engineer. The reason we haven't had electric cars isn't because they looked bad" (or words to that effect).

[j2bax]

Sure... Anyone that has the skill and know how to build a company that can build a game changing product like Tesla has...

[jug6ernaut]

Gotta love opinions.

[cryptoz]

Yes, if you prove you're worth it.