Larry Burns Quotes

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

I drive an electric car.

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment.

The Diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it.

People will buy a good electrical car instead of buying a fossil-fuel one, and you get a much better standard of car.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

My goal is to never own a gas car.

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.

By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.