Tesla is becoming a real car company.
At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.
My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.
The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.
I think is very important that Formula E can apply its technology to everyday cars and everyday usage just as F1 is sort of a testing formula for improvement in road cars.
The 500X and Jeep Renegade are very different cars, but they are manufactured in the same plant and share R&D, which reduces the total investment required by 1 billion euros. That is why I'm convinced that the industry needs and will see more consolidation in the future.
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.
There is a new hunger in the air for automotive design and looking to where automobiles are going in the future. Tesla will capture this through good design and engineering.
You can't be an inventor trying to figure a better way of changing the spare tire. That's boring. We need someone who figures out how to hit a button and turn the entire car upside down.
What if the Big Three automakers made products that were simple and easy to use - imagine a car with a user interface made by Apple - while also constantly trying to push the state of the art? What if they constantly sought out new technologies and ideas, and incorporated them into their products?
It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.
There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.
I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
Of course we want to pocket Fisker. But we will bid rationally. Whatever the result, nothing can stop us from making electric cars.
Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.
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.
As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.
Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
I believe that Renault can provide me with a competitive car in the future, and that's what a driver needs and what a driver is looking for.
There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
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.
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
