A123 picks up $249m of your money...

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by BrianG

We pay them so they can charge us again down the line. Disgusting.

While that may be true, the tax money going to them should be earmarked for research and development, and hopefully there will be some amount of oversight on them.
These battey systems are going to require some sort of eureka! from one of these companies.