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Power play : Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century
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First edition.
"Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the perfect car Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial con artist. Billionsof dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the mid 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrapheap by carmakers for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential. The gas-guzzling car was in need of disruption; the world was ready for Car 2.0. So they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was faster, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition. But as the saying goes, to make a small fortune in cars, start with a big fortune. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by creditors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics more than once took the company he had funded largely with his own money to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three? Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all: success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds--and changed the future"--
Available copies
- 19 of 20 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 20 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Bedford Free Library | 338.7 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31002150817467 |
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| Bedford Hills Free Library | 338.76 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31003151580989 |
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| Bronxville Public Library | 338.76 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31004151823239 |
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| Chappaqua Library | 338.7 HIGGINS (Text) Nonfiction |
31005600104279 |
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| Croton Free Library | 338.7629 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31006151935061 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | 338.762 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31009154806362 |
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| Harrison Public Library | 338.762 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31010300258292 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | 338.76 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31016151754321 |
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| Katonah Village Library | 338.7 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31013151930373 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | 338.7629 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31014152974873 |
Checked out 05/07/2024 |
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