Nobody Wants To Buy A $60,000 Electric

I Tend To Approach Things From A Physics Framework. And Physics Teaches You To Reason From First Principles Rather Than By Analogy.

I Don't Spend My Time Pontificating About High-concept Things; I Spend My Time Solving Engineering And Manufacturing Problems.

The Biggest Mistake, In General, I've Made, Is To Put Too Much Of A Weighting On Someone's Talent And Not Enough On Their Personality. And I've Made That Mistake Several Times. I Think It Actually Matters Whether Somebody Has A Good Heart, It Really Does. I've Made The Mistake Of Thinking That It's Sometimes Just About The Brain.

Some Companies Out There Quote A Start Of Production That Is Substantially In Advance Of When Customers Get Their Cars.

I Want To Make Rockets 100 Times, If Not 1,000 Times Better. The Ultimate Objective Is To Make Humanity A Multiplanet Species. Thirty Years From Now, There'll Be A Base On The Moon And On Mars, And People Will Be Going Back And Forth On Spacex Rockets.