LEADER 00000nim a22005055a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125075935.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 150902s2013 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781452696935 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1452696934 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781452696935_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11411891 037 11411891|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 629.222|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Fagone, Jason,|eauthor. 245 10 Ingenious :|ba true story of invention, automotive daring, and the race to revive America|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cJason Fagone. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2013. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 07 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Adam Verner. 520 In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass- producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond-into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite-a start-up backed by millions in venture capital-designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, 'SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US.' 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Automobiles|xEnergy consumption|xResearch|zUnited States. 650 0 Automobiles|xEnergy consumption|xTechnological innovations |zUnited States. 650 0 Automobiles|xDesign and construction|xCompetitions|zUnited States. 650 0 Inventors|zUnited States. 650 0 Creative ability|zUnited States. 650 0 Industrial development projects|zUnited States. 700 1 Verner, Adam,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11411891?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781452696935_180.jpeg