A few weeks ago, I came across the Tesla Motors showroom in Fashion Square, an upscale shopping mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. That's exactly what it is: a show room, because Tesla can't sell cars in Arizona, as the polite clerk informed me.

By Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC and Tesla Motors Inc , both led by media-savvy executives, are trading public jabs over the definition of payback. Tesla wired $452 million on Wednesday to repay the remaining portion of its U.S. Department of Energy loan with interest. The company described itself as "the only American car company to have ...

The difference between Tesla and Fisker? Tesla acted like a real car company.Electric car company Tesla paid back a controversial loan to the Department of Energy on Wednesday, a feat that sets it apart from other fledgling electric car start-ups and programs.The repayment of nearly half a billion dollars comes nine years ahead of schedule and will net U.S. taxpayers ...

P/>NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tesla Motors deserves the attention it is getting after repaying all of its Department of Energy loans, but few in the hyperbolic business press are focusing on the right things. Tesla's DOE loan repayment, characterized in the media as a breakthrough in repaying taxpayer-backed alternative energy loans, actually speaks bigger volumes about the Elon Musk-run company's ...

P/>NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tesla Motors deserves the attention it is getting after repaying/ all of its Department of Energy loans, but few in the hyperbolic business press are focusing the right things. Tesla's DOE loan repayment, characterized by CNBC and Slate as a breakthrough in repaying taxpayer-backed alternative energy loans, actually speaks bigger volumes about the Elon Musk-run company's ...