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Jay Adelson
Jay Adelson
The Digg chairman and Detroit native has been "obsessed with electric cars" since he was young, but he's been waiting for a startup EV company with a shot at becoming a big car company before he wrote the check. Sure there have been bumps in the past year, but Tesla has that shot, Adelson says.

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Last updated July 09 2008: 5:05 PM ET
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