← BackJanuary 13, 2015Detroit Auto Show0:00 / 0:00CC1×YouTubeDetroit Auto ShowJanuary 13, 2015Musk speaks to press at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, urging other automakers to accelerate electric-vehicle programs as gas prices fall.Musk speaks to press at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, urging other automakers to accelerate electric-vehicle programs as gas prices fall.TranscriptElon MuskThe need for sustainable transport is incredibly high. Even in the face of massively declining oil prices. I think it actually becomes more urgent that the auto manufacturers transition to electric and put a huge amount of effort behind their electric vehicle programs. As you know, at Tesla we've open sourced our patents. So we're trying to be as helpful as possible for the advent of electric vehicles. We've also said that our supercharged network, we're happy to have other carmakers use that supercharged network and we're really doing everything we can to accelerate the advent of sustainable cars.We're working very hard to grow the rates. As I said, our, our weekly production rate year over year is, has increased 100%.For a manufacturer of a large complex object, that is a huge percentage growth and we're going to try to increase it again by 100% year over year. In terms of the weekly production rate beginning start of the year, at the end of the year you have like a 10 to 20 year horizon here where you want to, I mean, you want to go to Mars. I want to, I want to enable large numbers of people and cargo to go to Mars. So it's not sort of about me personally wanting to make a journey back to Mars.I mean that would be nice on a personal level, but I do think it is important that we as a species, as a civilization, are on a path to become a true space faring civilization and a multi planet species.Full transcript →