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Daimler Buys 10% of Electric Car Maker Tesla

Tesla, which makes an electric Roadster and is hoping to make an electric Sedan, just sold 10% of itself to Daimler.

According to the numbers (we only know that it's "double digit millions"), Jalopnik speculates that Tesla's valuation is actually less than Twitter. [CNN Money via Jalopnik]

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