Erna Solberg Quotes

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.

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

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.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

My goal is to never own a gas car.

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 drive an electric car.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

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.

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

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

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.

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.