The Engineer

Revenge. Henry Ford had a saying, “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against t ...

Revenge 238 TTAC stopped the countdown when Tesla delivered Roadster number 100 to its owner. But they were still negative to Te ...

Revenge 239 is that I can show up to an event like Global Green or Conservation International in a hot sports car and actually g ...

Revenge 240 went down in history alongside Henry Ford for doing this thing.”^196 Other customers had only minor complaints. The ...

Revenge 241 going bankrupt, people’s net worth having taken a giant kick in the balls, and the fact that the car isn’t coming ou ...

Revenge 242 But how would Tesla convince the Germans? Tesla came up with the idea to rebuild a tiny Daimler Smart car by equippi ...

Revenge 243 The Daimler executives arrived to Tesla. After a Pow- erPoint presentation, the executives from Daimler were not con ...

Revenge 244 rated with pumpkins, skeletons, and fake blood. Everyone thought Elon had finally gone crazy and now he would ruin e ...

Revenge 245 leaders in the world and a company I personally have long admired,” Elon told the audience of the press conference w ...

Revenge 246 predilection, but it is the thing that needs to be done.”^194 To service Tesla’s customers and to find new customers ...

Revenge 247 Elon. “Can I see you tomorrow?” Elon asked. “I have to meet at Cape Canaveral tomorrow with Obama at noon and we’re ...

Revenge 248 franchise dealers have a fundamental conflict of interest between selling gasoline cars, which constitute the vast m ...

Revenge 249 To go around this law, not all Tesla Stores are selling cars. Some are called galleries where you can’t buy a car. W ...

Revenge 250 your money from Bear.” Later the same year, Bear Stearns became one of the companies that didn’t survive the so call ...

Revenge 251 To motivate people to begin driving electric vehicles, the Norwegians established a number of incentives. “The benef ...

Revenge 252 One of the first customers who bought a Model S was Christian von Koenigsegg, a Swede who like Elon has founded his ...

Revenge 253 fordable car that Tesla want to build hundreds of thousands of in a few years. You can no longer buy a Roadster, so ...

Halfway to Anywhere The Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert Heinlein was one of the two first books in the International Space Sta ...

Halfway to Anywhere 255 Jurvetson said. “I was a believer all along, and just wanted my partners to let me invest in something t ...

Halfway to Anywhere 256 attempt to launch the Falcon 1 rocket. The launch became a success. “It’s just a giant kick on the balls ...