I wrote my PhD thesis about why EV companies fail. Then I started one. You could call that confidence or insanity.

Hardware is hard. That's the point. If it were easy, everyone would do it, and there would be no moat.

The transition to electric vehicles is not a trend. It is the biggest industrial shift since the internal combustion engine replaced the horse.

We spent twelve years building before we shipped a single vehicle. Most people thought we were crazy. Now they think we were early.

Growing up near Cape Canaveral taught me that impossible engineering problems are solvable. You just need the right people and enough time.