Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've had this book on my library wishlist for awhile--and was finally ready & able to get the audiobook version. What an amazing, complicated, whiz-bang, creative, smart-as-as-whip & hard-headed persister this man is. And to think that he landed in Canada looking for relatives to stay with (first one wasn't there any more--so he bought an all-Canada bus pass) and with very little money in his pocket! And has since gone on to be a part of revolutionizing internet payments/banking, rocketry, as well as the world of electric vehicles & efficient & usable large battery packs for vehicles. And then there's his boring/tunneling exploits and the hyper-loop concept (the book didn't focus on these last two industries, which are still emerging into viable businesses). Musk is a truly creative genius and out-of-the-box thinker/creator. He knows his stuff--and if he didn't know it, he learned it from interacting regularly with is engineers, picking their brains for the know-how. Amazing to hear how Space X and Tesla have been able to produce & deliver real products so much cheaper and more efficiently than other long-standing behemoths (like NASA, Lockheed & Boeing, as well as other major auto companies). Truly revolutionary stuff that has been done in the past 15-20 years on a scale unimaginable at the turn of the century. I think there's still a long ways to go in their continued development & improvement--in truly world-changing & improving ways. Enjoyed listening to this library audiobook on my iPhone.


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