Astro Teller Quotes

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

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

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

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 racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

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.'

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

We believe that there are many buyers who want a stylish, sporty car that sends a positive message about their concern for the environment as they drive it down the street.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next 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.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.