Simone Giertz Quotes

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

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

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

I drive an electric car.

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

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

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

I'm a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.

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

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

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.'

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

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.

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

We still see that people don't really realize that electric cars are here right now. And when we show up with an actual vehicle, and you see it drive away under its own power, it's still kind of a jaw-dropping moment for a lot of people.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.

Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.

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

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