Zitat des Tages von Elon Musk:
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
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 think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
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.
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
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.
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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 think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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.
Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
