Bill Gates Quotes

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

The future of the German automobile industry is very much at stake. Will we help shape the upheaval that goes along with the shift to electric cars or will we suffer from it? We are the country of automobiles. If we aren't able to remain out front technologically, it will be painful. That is one of the decisive questions when it comes to jobs, income and prosperity - and not just for a few of the wealthy or super-rich, but for a huge number of people.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

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.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids.

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.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

We can eliminate gasoline in this country in 25 years.

I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

But, I think I first got into cars because of an electric car - it was the Tesla. And then, just the fact that they are such high-tech products. There's automated driving. There's battery technology, all the other stuff that goes into it.

I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.