Kimbal Musk Quotes

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

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

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

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.

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.

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.

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

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.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

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

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

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

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

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

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.

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

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.

People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

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.

We can eliminate gasoline in this country in 25 years.

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