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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. "

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" You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet. "

" I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people. "

" Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. "

" I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved. "

" 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. "

" Tesla is becoming a real car company. "

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" Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. "

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" Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. "

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