We still believe it's very expensive. It's not a great business case. But we have to balance the market pull with regulatory requirements.

In many ways, it's a business. You have to strike a balance between having academic freedom and doing different types of research, and having the work sponsored by companies that want to see research commercialized. At the media lab, we may have to go a step further than we've done in the past and build prototypes with sponsors.

I didn't know how to read a balance sheet, ... But running a non-profit is like running any business. These are skills you need to have.

We are still very much a proponent of diesel. The penetration of diesel vehicles is very high in Europe, and we see that increasing in the United States in the coming years.

We wanted more room in the back seat so we could attract younger families.

It's a stretch to say we would ever do all these things in one truck, but we have to see which features resonate with consumers so we know which ones to make business cases for.