I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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.