Nice try but anybody can search for themselves.
Yes... and find a Seeking Alpha article which apparently thinks that Obama flew backwards in time six years to create Tesla. That’s how god-d@mned ignorant the authors of Seeking Alpha are.
If you look up A123 anywhere else, you’ll find that A123 was business partners with Th!nk, Fisker (two electric-car companies), General Electric, and through the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, Ford, GM and Crystler, as well as Shanghai Automotive Investment Corp. In other words, about every other electric car designer in America EXCEPT Tesla.