Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to the number of cars they make and it is certainly not due to profits which are incidentally non-existent. So what is it all about?

Ashlee Vance has written the preeminent biography on the genius driving Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop, Elon Musk, with insights gained from his unprecedented access to the eccentric entrepreneur. Peter Henderson talks about Tesla’s make or break moment as with the arrival and scaling of the S model, aimed at average American families.

Peter Henderson, West Coast Deputy Bureau Chief, Thomson Reuters

Ashlee Vance, Reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek

This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 12, 2017.

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