The loan, at an interest rate of 15%, was fully repaid within 18 months.

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Greece's two-year bonds now pay 25% interest, but there's little hope that the principal will be fully repaid.

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Tesla isn't oblivious to the politics of all this, and on Wednesday it said it had fully repaid its government loan.

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