The Engineer

End of the Beginning 337 the Model S is, in fact, the best car is a huge vindication and, I think, what will be hopefully seen h ...

End of the Beginning 338 you rot in hell.” He has now changed his mind, and he calls himself an environmentalist within reason.^ ...

End of the Beginning 339 Fisker, has left Fisker Automotive and the company strug- gles for its survival. 75 percent of the work ...

End of the Beginning 340 become in a way, and then the king goes crazy.^278 “I think I’m probably am a bit crazy, but maybe that ...

End of the Beginning 341 some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can ch ...

Timeline Elon Musk. 1971.Born in Pretoria, South Africa, June 28 1983.Designed a computer game and sold it for $500 1989.Moved t ...

Timeline 343 search and also science and engineering edu- cation 2002.eBay acquired PayPal. Founded Space Ex- ploration Technolo ...

Timeline 344 2002 January. Martin Heberhard and Marc Tarpen- ning founded Tesla Motors with the goal of reinventing the electri ...

Timeline 345 company. They finished business plan 1.0 March. Starting a car company is expen- sive, so they began to look for o ...

Timeline 346 clay of the design Barney Hatt had made. Tesla had now 18 employees and they also took out Mule 1 for a test drive ...

Timeline 347 July. Almost no-one knew that Tesla ex- isted, until now when Tesla showed EP 1 and EP 2 in Santa Monica, Californ ...

Timeline 348 January. Tesla brought the Roadster to Arvidsjaur, Sweden, to see if it could survive winter conditions February. ...

Timeline 349 December. Interim CEO Michael Marks was replaced by interim CEO Ze’ev Drori 2008 January. 260 employees. The VPs ...

Timeline 350 Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) program 2009 March. Tesla unveiled two Model S pro- totypes at the Los An ...

Timeline 351 2012 January. Tesla ended production of the Roadster to focus on the Model S February. Tesla revealed the Model X ...

Timeline 352 2002 June. Elon Musk founded the company December. 14 employees 2006 March. First failed flight of the Falcon 1 ...

Timeline 353 2010 June. First flight of the Falcon 9 December. 1200 employees. First flight of the Dragon capsule and becomes t ...

Sources 1.Elon Musk on Changing the Energy Sector.¹ Wall Street Journal, 2012. Web. 2.Liker, K. Jeffrey. The Toyota Way. McFraw- ...

Sources 355 9.OT: McLaren in Irvine CA.⁷Hybrids, 2002. Web. 10.McLaren F1 pics.⁸FerrariChat, 2012. Web. 11.Churchill, Winston. L ...

Sources 356 20.A serial entrepreneur paypals it forward.¹¹ The Wharton School, 2007. Web. 21.Elon Musk jumps overboard from Paul ...