Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles
by Colias, Mike | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9781647825386
- Publication Year
- 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Inevitable : inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Review Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Topic
- Industries / Automobile Industry, Power Resources / Electrical, Environmental Economics, Economics / General
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- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
- Country of Origin
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN-10
1647825385
ISBN-13
9781647825386
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19070932968
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Book Title
Inevitable : inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, Power Resources / Electrical, Environmental Economics, Economics / General
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
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Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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2024-028837
Dewey Edition
23
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Advance Praise for Inevitable : "This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the massive shift that is upending the auto industry as we've known it. It reads like a thriller, and it should--the stakes involved for the world automotive industry could not be higher." -- Mike Murphy, political strategist; founder and CEO, EV Politics Project " Inevitable is a comprehensive account of the greatest upheaval in the transportation industry since the invention of the internal combustion engine. One of the best automotive journalists in the world, Colias delivers an unvarnished retelling of the EV revolution, warts and all. Essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the car industry." -- Sean McLain, reporter, Wall Street Journal ; coauthor, Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn "Electric cars with supercomputer brains and Chinese supply chains have launched a global industrial arms race US automakers and workers might not win. Mike Colias's colorful, deeply reported book takes you inside the war rooms, from Detroit to Shanghai." -- Joe White, coauthor, Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry " Inevitable is an enlightening and entertaining depiction of the most important transformation of the auto industry since cars replaced horses. Colias makes a convincing argument that EVs are here to stay, making it important to understand their evolution." -- Gregory Zuckerman, special writer, Wall Street Journal
Dewey Decimal
388.3493
Synopsis
A Wall Street Journal reporter's sweeping portrait of the EV gold rush and what it means for all of us. For electric vehicles, the question is no longer if they'll happen, or even when, but how--and veteran automotive beat reporter Mike Colias shows you just that. This is his deeply reported insider view of the hard pivot in the car business, a $2 trillion industry that hasn't undergone a change this profound in its 120-year history. Already, the transition to EVs is sending ripples across all aspects of the global economy. Colias documents the massive transformation from internal combustion engines to battery-powered vehicles from every angle. He takes you inside the boardrooms where executives chasing Tesla battle over EV strategies, in fear of being left behind. He brings you to family-run car dealerships wrestling with the decision of whether to sell EVs--or sell their business. He follows entrepreneurs looking for hidden opportunities along lonely stretches of road that will soon need charging stations. He walks the floors of battery factories where scientists try to pack ever more power into the same space. He talks to power train engineers whose skills, once the beating heart of the car business, are rapidly becoming obsolete. Change is inevitable, but rarely have we seen someone capture what business transformation means in so much detail, bringing to life such change's profound effect on everything and everyone., A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us. The question is no longer if electric vehicles will happen, or even when they'll happen, but how. Veteran automotive reporter Mike Colias takes you inside the transformation in this thoroughly reported profile of the hard pivot in the car business, a $2 trillion industry undergoing the biggest change in its 120-year history--a change that is already sending ripples across the entire global economy. Colias documents the inevitable shift from pistons to electrons from every angle, taking you inside the boardrooms where executives battle over their EV strategies to take on Tesla and, more recently, emerging Chinese powerhouses such as BYD. He brings you to family-run car dealerships deciding if they'll sell EVs--or sell their businesses. He follows entrepreneurs along lonely stretches of road that will soon need charging stations. He talks to power-train engineers whose skills were once the beating heart of the automotive industry but who now find themselves being replaced by coders. This is an epic exploration that stretches from Detroit to Japan to Germany to China, and from factories in Normal, Illinois, and Haywood County, Tennessee, to a burgeoning mining operation along the shores of California's briny, lithium-rich Salton Sea. Inevitable is a deeply enjoyable and smart book that uses masterful storytelling to capture the expanse and dynamism of the transition to electric vehicles in profound detail, bringing to life its seismic effects on everything and everyone.
LC Classification Number
HD9710.A2C59 2025
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