Ray Stannard Baker Quotes

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

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

I drive an electric car.

I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.

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.

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 don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

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

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Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

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

We drive a Tesla.

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

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

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

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.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.

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

Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

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

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.