Elon Musk Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Years, Car

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

• When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Horse, People

• I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Car, Energy

• Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Crush, Mean

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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

  Elon Musk

  Fighting, Car, Tesla

  "Tesla Motors reaches profitability on brisk Model S sales" by Dana Hull, www.siliconbeat.com. March 31, 2013.

• My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

  Elon Musk

  Bridges, Car, Opinion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Want, Rockets

  "Elon Musk On Being A Product-Obsessed 'Nano-Manager': 'It's Not A Recipe For Happiness'" by Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

• A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Gasoline, Prius

  "Tesla CEO Musk: Gas Should Be $10 A Gallon" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. June 15, 2009.

• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, People, Car

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

  Elon Musk

  Bmw, Car, Electric

  "Elon Musk's Answer To A Question About Tesla's Competition: 'HAHAHAHAHAHA'" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. August 7, 2013.

• Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

  Elon Musk

  Sports, People, 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.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Humanity, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Elon Musk

  Self, Safety, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Car, Google

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

  Elon Musk

  Sports, Opportunity, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.

  Elon Musk

  Believe, Thinking, Oil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Company, Customers

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Cells

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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