Tesla CEO Blasts Critic Says Gov: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
"Late last year, a New York Times column whipped Silicon Valley innovators and bailout-weary taxpayers into a frenzy. Valley professor and writer Randall Stross wrote that Tesla was hoping for government money to produce its cars, which only the very wealthy could afford.

It wasn't exactly true, since the loan was intended to produce the $50,000 Model S sedan, not the $109,000 Roadster.
.....We sat down with Tesla’s well-known founder, investor and CEO Elon Musk at the unveiling of the Model S in Silicon Valley this week. He gave us the latest on the loan and had harshe words for critic Stross:"
- posted by Sophont @ Monday, April 13, 2009