A123’s product, at the cell level, is excellent and innovative. That’s what we want in a company. It isn’t correct to say that they exist only for a political purpose.
The other stuff came much later.
It is quite correct, though, to say that they're only managing to survive, largely due to government largesse, because they do serve a political purpose.
Anytime they get federal funds they seem to get lazy and their executives get huge bonuses. Wasn’t it Solyndra where they were buying all kinds of frivolous crap?