篇章
一. Who——A bunch of young,hungry engineers
1. Straubel：
①Graduated from Stanford University,major in energy systems and engineering.
②Dabbling with new uses for solar power and electric vehicles based on the lithium ion batteries
2.David Lyons
① a very clever mechanical engineer and employee No. 12.
② a decade of experience working for Silicon Valley companies
3.Eberhard
①a supremely talented engineer with a do-gooder's social conscience
② looking for alternatives to gas-guzzling cars——the all-electric cars from AC Propulsion
③In 1997,Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning had founded NuvoMedia ,the Rocket eBook—one of the earliest electronic book readers
④On July 1, 2003, Eberhard and Tarpenning incorporated their new company—Tesla Motors
二. What ——Relationship with Elon Musk
①Straubel's idea struck an immediate chord with Musk,he promised to invest him
②Elon shared Eberhard's ambition, becoming the largest shareholder of Tesla and the chairman of the company.
③Musk called Straubel and urged him to meet with the Tesla team.
三 .What—— Things that they went along
1:Some details：
①.They bought a blue lift for the car and set it up inside the building. Purchased some machine tools, hand tools, and floodlights to work at night and started to turn the facility into a hotbed of R&D activity
②.They trying to understand how heat would dissipate and current flow would behave across seventy batteries
③.They achieved some early success at building two prototype cars, coupled with Tesla's engineering breakthroughs around the batteries and other technological pieces, boosted the company's confidence.
2: In 2005:build a quarter-scale model of the vehicle in January and then a full-scale model in April
3: In 2006:built a black version of the Roadster known as EP1;In July,built a red prototype—EP2—to complement the black one
Thought
Never mind that the Bay Area had no real history of this model ever having worked for something like a car and that building a complex, physical object had little in common with writing a software application.
大胆假设，敢于求证。我们可以通过对现有模式中的技术模仿而取得能进步，但不要安于模仿，放弃打破模式取得突破的机会。敢于质疑和不走寻常路。
词汇
Musk would visit now and again from Los Angeles and was unfazed by the conditions, having seen SpaceX grow up in similar surroundings.
unfazed by
释义：not confused or shocked by a difficult situation or by something bad that hashappened: 不担忧的; 不苦恼的
例句：The Prime Minister appeared to be totally unfazed by the protesters.
Electric vehicles tended to invoke religious overreactions from both the pro and con camps
pros and cons
释义：the advantages and disadvantages of something: 利弊正反两面
✏️ the pros and cons of (doing) something
例句：We discussed the pros and cons of going to university
pro：
①paid to do something, especially play a sport, that other people do for pleasure 职业
同义 professional:
✏️ turn/ go pro
例句：Most young talented players are determined to turn pro.
②if you are pro an idea, suggestion etc, you support it: 介词：支持，赞成
例句：As a party, they had always been pro family.
con n.
释义：to persuade someone to do something by deceiving them 欺骗，
同义 trick:
✏️ con somebody into doing something
例句： You had no right to con me into thinking I could trust you.
there were companies dabbling with new uses for solar power and electric vehicles
dabble：
释义 1 ：to do something or be involved in something in a way that isnot very serious: 涉猎，草率对待
✏️ dabble in/ at/ with
例句：people who dabble in painting as a way of relaxing
释义2:to move your hands, feet etc about in water: 嬉水，溅湿
✏️ dabble something in something
例句：children dabbling their feet in the sea