Eberhard told her the impetus for starting Tesla was that he wanted a new sports car after getting divorced, saw the Iraq war going on over oil and the growing threat of climate change, and wondered why he couldn’t get an electric one. The battery pack was the core innovation that made Tesla a serious player in the electric vehicle game. Speaking to Mother Jones in 2013, Eberhard said Tesla would have had to raise more capital to get through that period if the loan hadn’t come through. In the coming weeks, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.us.thinkdiag.pl we’ll also be uploading the uncut interviews with some of the guests I spoke to for this series, exclusive for Patreon supporters. And then I spoke to board members, and they basically told me the same thing.