Steve Eisman Quotes

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

We drive a Tesla.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.

Electric cars are the future.

As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

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.

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

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

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

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.

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.

Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.

On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

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.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.