Jennifer Granholm Quotes

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

But, I think I first got into cars because of an electric car - it was the Tesla. And then, just the fact that they are such high-tech products. There's automated driving. There's battery technology, all the other stuff that goes into it.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.

Today, you get better performance from a Ford Focus than a Ferrari from the mid-70s. [The Focus] is just as fast and with better fuel economy. It's fun to see supercar technology trickle down to everyday cars.

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.

When you start to automate, you start to do the self-driving thing, you make it much more efficient. When these cars go into self-driving, you start to become a robotics company.

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

KERS definitely helps on a straight when you want to overtake somebody who doesn't have the system.

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.

I think it's very clear now that we will have self-driving cars.