Four British engineers took a 200,000-mile Tesla apart down to the last bolt. They were hired to answer one question: can these cars really be trusted to last? What they found answered a much bigger one. Who actually built it?

From a battery that refused to wear out, to a sheet of glass made by a method invented in St Helens, to a computer chip whose architecture was drawn up in Cambridge, to an X-ray image at three in the morning, every clue on that workshop floor pointed the same way. And it wasn't the way the badge says.

This is the story of the parts nobody reads, and of the small island that quietly invented what the electric age would need.

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ℹ️ About this video
This video is a dramatisation. The teardown team, client, consultant and events in the workshop are created for storytelling. The technology, companies, places, research and history referenced are real, including Pilkington's float glass process, Arm, Michael Faraday's work at the Royal Institution, the 1980 lithium cobalt oxide discovery at Oxford, Stanley Whittingham, the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell, Lotus and the original Tesla Roadster built at Hethel, MG Rover at Longbridge and the Daimler Motor Company in Coventry, 1896. Battery figures quoted are Tesla's own published averages.

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