When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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

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.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.