Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World's Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado

An entertaining and inspirational memoir by the world’s most popular DIY expert and car aficionado, revealing how Rich Benoit went from buying a left-for-dead Tesla to becoming a successful YouTube entrepreneur and subsequently launching The Electrified Garage, the nation’s first successful EV-only business devoted to repairing Teslas and electric vehicles of all makes.

People are fascinated by Tesla: the cars, the stock price, and especially its headline-grabbing CEO.  As someone who has pulled back the curtain on the cult-like business model that is the Tesla company – and has battled with its consumer-unfriendly business practices—readers will be eager to go behind the scenes of the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel.  Throughout his life, Benoit has almost always been the proverbial “only Black guy in the room,” an experience which culminates in his being the most popular Black car rebuilding guy on the internet, a subculture even more overwhelmingly white than most.  And the specific world of electric vehicle fandom—and specifically Tesla fandom—where Rich is a major star, is even more so. His voice on the page, just like his persona in his videos, is funny and intimate and a little goofy, but tempered by a clear determination to make a success of himself and his enterprises.  GOING FAST AND FIXING THINGS also provide advice to help readers in their own car-buying, -driving, and -fixing lives, and more generally about how to resist the fundamentally passive disposable-is-better consumerist ethos that saturates our current culture.