Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

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.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.