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Ingenious
- A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
- By: Jason Fagone
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
- By Shamu from New York on 12-07-13
- Ingenious
- A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
- By: Jason Fagone
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
Terrific story of car builders
Reviewed: 11-14-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This is a terrific book about a bunch of underdogs doing what Detroit and Tokyo could not or would not do: build a car that gets 100 miles per gallon. It is a work of non-fiction with characters that could have stepped out of a novel, quick pacing, and dramatic tension. Fagone tells the story of the Automotive X PRIZE by highlighting four teams of inventors, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who embark on an international competition designed to set the automotive industry on a path to increased fuel efficiency. While the goal of the X PRIZE doesn't seem to have been reached, the scope of work done by the various teams is truly inspirational.
Who was your favorite character and why?
I loved all the characters, but the best drawn were Kevin Smith and Oliver Kuttner. I came away from the book with a great affection and understanding of what drove their competitive spirits and desire to build.
What about Adam Verner’s performance did you like?
The narrator was wonderfully fitted to the tale of a bunch of gritty inventors.
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