Elon Musk-Ch 10-03

Day 17

Chapter 10 THE REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR

Thoughts

埃隆做事的两个特点，一个是追求完美，一个一不做二不休

本章首先提到对tesla车型的改造，设计的日臻完善，不管在经济上还是人力成本、资源方面，都投入了真金白银的大量心血。

订单不能变现，那么就用最笨的办法，召集所有部门的人力，不管大家的分工是什么，先把预定订单全部变为已付款为止。同时任人唯贤，大刀阔斧，卓有成效

Words & Expressions

subpar

sub‧par /ˌsʌbˈpɑː-ˈpɑːr/ adjective

1something that is subpar is below the level of quality, performance etc that you would usually expect

The banks had subpar earnings due to bad loans.

2a subpar amount is below normal or average

Inflation is subpar and still going down.

3another word for BELOW PAR → see under par

原文参考：

He placed Jerome Guillen, a former Daimler executive, in charge of fixing the service issues. Musk fired senior leaders whom he deemed subpar performers and promoted a flood of junior people who had been doing above-average work.

behind the pledge

pledge:MONEY

a promise to give money to an organization

Donors have made pledges totaling nearly $4 million.

pledge of

a pledge of $200 to the public TV station

原文参考：

Customers would be able to resell their cars for the average going rate of similar luxury sedans with Musk putting his billions behind this pledge.

in a ... fashion

in a particular way

Please leave the building in an orderly fashion.

Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.

She will be working out her problems in her own fashion (=in the way that she usually does this).

原文参考：

The severity of this problem had been hidden from Musk, but once he learned about it, he acted in his signature all-or-nothing fashion.