Elon Musk Quotes

Electric cars are the future.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

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

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

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

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

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

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

We have to use cars much more efficiently. We have to look at alternative technologies of cars such as biofuels or, even more importantly, electric cars.

We want to encourage a move away from polluting vehicles, aiming to ban new diesel and petrol cars by 2030, and expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement.

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

Accelerating the development of hydrogen fuel cells and the infrastructure needed for hydrogen production, delivery, and storage should be a national priority. Hydrogen could fundamentally change the transportation sector in this country and around the world…

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

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.

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.