Tesla's Success is "A Combination of Thousands of Heroic Feats that No One Knows About" (Book Excerpt)
Photo courtesy David Havasi David Havasi was a car guy from birth. He grew up near Auburn Hills, and his dad worked in the auto industry. “My childhood was steeped in Detroit auto culture,” he told me. “That’s what we talked about at the dinner table. My dad would bring home lab cars — like a library book, but it was a car. He worked on minivans, K-cars, a lot of projects that were revolutionary for their time, so I really got to appreciate innovation. His last project was the PT Cruiser, which basically invented the crossover segment.” As Tesla co-founders Marc Tarpenning, Martin...