Evan Spiegel Quotes

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

You can't take my batteries out; I'm always on the go.

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

I started a company called Pixel Qi and the principal of as we're going, smartphones were happening, but as we go forward, the predictions were five devices per person. Do you want to charge each one of those every night to try to get them on a full charge when you're walking around? Smartphones don't even last a day without a recharge now.

Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.

Android phones are sold by dozens of hardware makers, the biggest being Samsung, Motorola, and HTC. There are lots of different form factors. Slider phones. Phones with keyboards. Big screens, small screens, midsize screens.

Wanxiang and Ener1 share a vision to help fulfill our country's strong commitment to electrifying transportation on a mass scale and to deploy lithium-ion technology to improve the effectiveness of the power grid.