Rich Benoit went from buying a left-for-dead Tesla to becoming a successful YouTube entrepreneur and launching The Electrified Garage, the nation\'s first successful EV-only business devoted to repairing Teslas and other electric vehicles.
Going Fast and Fixing Things also includes tips to help readers fix, drive, and buy their own cars, along with advice on how to defy the disposable-is-better consumerist ethos that saturates our current culture..
His voice on the page is funny and intimate and a little goofy--just like his video persona--but always tempered by a passion for the right to Repair and a clear determination to create success for himself as well as for his fans.
Throughout his life, Rich has alMost always been the proverbial only Black guy in the room, but despite the fact that online car culture--especially electric vehicle fandom--skews overwhelmingly white, he has become the Most Popular car rebuilding guy on the internet.
In Going Fast and Fixing Things, Rich provides readers with behind-the-scenes access not only to his Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel but to his off-camera life as well.
Rich Benoit was the first YouTuber to pull back the curtain on the cult-like business model that is the Tesla company, and he\'s personally battled its consumer-unfriendly business practices.
People are fascinated by Tesla: the cars, the stock price, and especially its headline-grabbing CEO.
Today he is a strong advocate for right to Repair and the world\'s Most Popular DIY Expert and car afficionado, and now he shares his story and expertise.
Rich Benoit went from buying a left-for-dead Tesla to becoming a successful YouTube entrepreneur and launching The Electrified Garage, the nation\'s first successful EV-only business devoted to repairing Teslas and other electric vehicles
