Every Model S needs to be exactly right, and I am literally personally looking at every car at this point.

If you can go work for another company and then maybe you can work a 40-hour work week. But if you work for Tesla, the minimum is really a 50-hour week.

I find things wrong in almost every car.

There's no question that we have to make money on the Model S.

One of the requirements of the ATVMP loan was that you demonstrate viability as a company. That's why General Motors and Chrysler were not eligible. I think there's a slight question about why Fisker was given the money, but whatever.

There were a couple of near-death situations. One is where I had to basically take all of my personal reserve capital in 2008 and invest that in Tesla. I literally had to borrow money for rent.

It's a slow news day when Bloomberg reports that Tesla opened a service center in San Rafael. I mean, c'mon.

The B-Class E-Cell is not a marketing or a demonstration program. It is a serious, high-volume program.

This is a problem I've had with all SUVs. You can't get to the damn third row. The Audi Q7 is particularly horrendous. Even in the best case scenario, you need to be dwarf mountain climber to get into the back seat.

The Tesla Supercharger is on the order of 100 kW. The Leaf has like a 6 kWh. So we're talking about something 12 to 15 times more powerful.

If we can make an electric car that people think is better than any gasoline car, then they'll buy it just because it's the best car. Then we're way beyond people who just care about the environment.