Pt. I: The stakes.
Jeff Chamberlain's war
Why Argonne let Wan in
A good place to do science
"Discouraged weariness in the eyes"
Professor Goodenough
The double marathoner
Batteries are a treacherous world
Creating NMC
The man from Casablanca
Theft in the lab
The new boss
A little talk with the South Koreans
What Andy Grove said
How to navigate great minds

Pt. II: Foreigners in the lab.
The start-up
Out of India (and China and Africa)
Why we stay in Chicago
IPO!
The car man
Bell men
The no-start-up mystery
"The damn Hub"
Team Argonne
Fire
A chance to win the lottery
"There is a problem with your material"
An engineering solution
Going deep on the fade

Pt. III: Reckoning.
Orlando
The old technology guys
Only the Irrational or the naïve will win the day
A three-hundred-mile battery
ARPA-E
The old and the young
Red Team
War room
Getting to a deal
"So what is wrong with me?"
"Throw out the old paradigm"
The waiting
Deal
The news from Envia
The big man at Argonne
Second quarter review
Black box
Back to the race