In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
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.
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.
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.
I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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 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.
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
