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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by rory096 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:20PM (#16826915)
Tesla paid back (almost all of) SolarCity's solar bonds in 2017. Only Musk personally (and his cousins) still hold that debt.

[0] https://electrek.co/2017/04/14/tesla-solar-bonds-elon-musk-s...

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by thomaskcr on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:51PM (#16827015)
That's definitely not true -- They have a $230m Solarcity bond due Nov 2018 and then another $566m inherited Solarcity bond due Nov 2019.

What was paid back were "Solar bonds", which were not SolarCity bonds.

I can see why you would think that though - the PR around that only mentioned what they were paying early, not what was being inherited. (I think by design, but I have a cynical view of Tesla's relationship with the truth so that's only an opinion).

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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by rory096 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:58PM (#16827041)
As far as I know, solar bonds are the only type of SolarCity bond that SpaceX owned.

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/this-is-why-elon-musks-spacex-...

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