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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. (Elon Musk)
I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google. View quote
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. View quote
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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. View quote
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As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot. View quote
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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. View quote
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I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA. View quote
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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. View quote
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. View quote
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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. View quote
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. (Elon Musk)
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will. View quote
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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. View quote
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A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. View quote
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With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out. View quote
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone. View quote
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. View quote
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia. View quote
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Only by breaking through to new paradigms of space travel will more than a handful of us ever get to Mars and make it a potentially livable place. View quote
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Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company! View quote
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I believe there's some explanation for this universe, which you might call God. (Elon Musk)
... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home. View quote
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We have planes, trains, automobiles and boats, ... What if there was a fifth mode? View quote
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People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime. View quote
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It's so insane the way rockets work today. It would be like if you got a plane and the way you get to your destination is you bail out with a parachute over the city in question and your plane crash lands somewhere. That's how rockets work today-with the exception of Falcon 9. This is completely bonkers. View quote
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