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.

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.

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

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

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.