Battery Technology Quotes

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

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.

The world is moving towards renewable green energy, and electric transportation is a big part of that.

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.

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

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Electric cars are the future.

The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.

What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves.

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

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

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.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

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

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

This is an important generation for the future of hybrid vehicles. With these models as well as the Ford Escape and the Honda Accord we're starting to see hybrid versions of mainstream vehicles. The auto makers are giving customers a direct choice: to opt for hybrid technology on a given model, or not. Will they pay the premium for the hybrid technology when everything else about the vehicle is the same?

We have to use cars much more efficiently. We have to look at alternative technologies of cars such as biofuels or, even more importantly, electric cars.

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

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.