Summary of Henry Sanderson's Volt Rush

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 In late September 2020, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had acquired the rights to a 10,000-acre plot in Nevada where it planned to extract lithium, a metal that was the key ingredient for every electric vehicle battery, using simple table salt.

#2 In late September 2020, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had acquired the rights to a 10,000-acre plot in Nevada where it planned to extract lithium, a metal that was the key ingredient for every electric vehicle battery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350033106

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Insights on Henry Sanderson's Volt Rush

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In late September 2020, Elon Musk addressed a car park full of Teslas at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Fremont. He announced that Tesla had acquired the rights to a 10,000-acre plot in Nevada where it planned to extract lithium, a metal that was the key ingredient for every electric vehicle battery.

#2

To meet Tesla’s targets, the world would have to rely on the green barons, companies that controlled the emerging clean energy supply chain.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He was a great believer in the power of the assembly line, and he was able to produce a cheap, practical electric automobile within a year.

#2

The electric car now promised all the benefits and none of the guilt that came with car ownership. The shift in the UK’s energy mix, and therefore the energy that would power my car, was remarkable.

#3

The importance of an electric car is not in the electronics, but in the thousands of cells lying at the bottom of the car, wrapped in an aluminium case. It is improvements in the battery that have made the electric car possible.

#4

In the summer of 1896, Thomas Edison, the man who had invented the first workable lightbulb and the phonograph, was dubbed the Wizard of Menlo Park. In contrast, Henry Ford was an unknown engineer from Michigan who worked at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit.

#5

In 1900, petrol cars accounted for twenty-two percent of the total vehicles in the United States, electrics thirty-eight percent, and steam vehicles forty-nine percent. Public transportation electric streetcars had already replaced