Fatih Birol Quotes

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.

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

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.

The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

We believe that electric vehicles can transform transportation completely in India by enabling lower cost of operation and ownership.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

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

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.