Elon Musk Quotes

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.

Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.

Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, arguably President Obama's best Cabinet appointment, has been leading a quiet revolution in clean-energy technology. Innovation is transforming this industry, costs are plummeting and entrepreneurs are devising radical new systems that create American jobs - in addition to protecting the planet.

By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

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.

We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.

The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable.

As Governor of Colorado, I will continue to transition our state away from fossil fuels to more clean, renewable sources of energy.

India has been developing its green energy resources.

We need to really get very serious about a transition toward new and renewable sources of energy.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

Renewable energy is very significant.

I say that our economic future is in the new technology that will lead to more fuel efficient cars and cleaner energy.

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.