You seemed to have missed my post Larry. There is private capital out there to finance them. Our company alone has already raised over $45 million from shareholders alone, and was actually a condition of our grant. We continue to raise money privately. Same goes with Tesla. There are lots of private investors out there, however the cost to go from prototypes to manufacturing is very costly, the grant money allows us to hire people and buy the equipment necessary to accelerate our shift to volume production. If we don't do it Larry, I can guarantee you that the Chinese WILL and ARE doing it as we speak. Should we just sit back and hand yet another manufacturing sector to China? Frankly, I'm kind of tired of doing that. If all goes well with this battery EV project, we might actually be manufacturing product here in Colorado, and sending it back to China instead of the usual crap.
