Electric cars are powered by electric motors and batteries and are gaining popularity all over the world.
They’re quieter and eco-friendlier than traditional cars having no exhaust emissions.
They’re also cheaper to own compared to gas-powered cars thanks to lower maintenance and fuel costs.
As a solution to resource depletion and climate damage caused by fossil fuels electric cars represent the future of transportation.
This increasing interest has sparked a variety of opinions with quotes from various people including industry experts, environmentalists, celebrities and everyday drivers reflecting the diverse views on their benefits and challenges.
These insights reveal the potential and hurdles in making electric cars more accessible.
Let’s get started.
Electric Vehicles Quotes
America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there. ~ Jennifer Granholm.
I don’t believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids. ~ Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation. ~ Carlos Ghosn.
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas. ~ Christophe de Margerie.
Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great. ~ David J. C. MacKay.
I don’t think very highly of Henrik Fisker. He thinks the reason we don’t have electric cars is for lack of styling ~ Elon Musk.
I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles. ~ Bernie Sanders
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it’s going to be a gradual improvement. ~ Carlos Ghosn
I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view. ~ Chris Paine.
Best Electric Vehicles Quotes
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. ~ Elon Musk
The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles. ~ Elon Musk
Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don’t have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes. ~ Carlos Ghosn
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris. ~ Al Jardine
You can’t have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. ~ Shai Agassi
In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources. ~ Yoshikazu Tanaka
The time is right for electric cars – in fact the time is critical. ~ Carlos Ghosn
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America’s political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. ~ Malcolm Turnbull.
Quotes about Electric Vehicles
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries. ~ Aubrey McClendon
The one factor that you can’t find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles. ~ Shai Agassi
How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit. ~ Kevin McCarthy
I think with more electric vehicles on the road, hopefully we’ll still be able to drive some fantastic sports cars with big V8s, or V10s, or even V12s. Why not? If we can find a way to balance the automotive world, where ultimately, when we have most of the commuters drive electric cars, then we won’t really have any issue with some sports cars driving around. ~ Henrik Fisker
From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense. ~ Noreena Hertz
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. ~ Elon Musk
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. ~ Maureen Dowd
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. ~ Vinod Khosla
Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things. ~ William J. Mitchell
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever. ~ Elon Musk
Every day I get to ‘Think’ and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. ~ Ginni Rometty.
Meaningful Electric Vehicles Quotes
In the European Union, a fleet average of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer will be permitted in 2020. This corresponds to fuel consumption of about four liters (per 100 kilometers; about 59 mpg). We have to continue reducing the fuel consumption of our vehicles and offer hybrid and electric vehicles, or else we will be unable to achieve these values. ~ Norbert Reithofer
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. ~ Elon Musk
Electric cars aren’t pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. ~ Alexandra Paul.
Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I’m not sure it would progress at the same pace. ~ Elon Musk.
There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down. ~ Mark Ruffalo.
