Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World's Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado by Rich Be
Going Fast and Fixing Things:
True Stories from the World's Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado
by Rich Benoit, Lisa Rogak
English | 2024 | Biography & Memoir
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. Today he is the world’s most
popular DIY expert and car aficionado, and now he shares his story and
expertise.
People are fascinated by Tesla: the cars, the stock price, and
especially its headline-grabbing CEO. Rich Benoit was the first YouTuber to
pull back the curtain on the cultlike business model that is the Tesla company,
and he’s personally battled its consumer-unfriendly business practices. 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.
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. His voice on the
page is funny and intimate and a little goofy—just like his video persona—but
always tempered by a clear determination to create success for himself as well
as for his fans. 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.