Detroit Auto Show

the need for sustainable transport is incredibly High um I mean even in the face of uh massively declining oil prices I think it actually becomes more urgent that uh that the auto manufacturers uh transition to electric and put a put a huge amount of effort behind their electric vehicle programs uh as uh as you know we've uh at Tesla we've open sourced our patents so we're trying to be as helpful as possible uh for the Advent of electric vehicles um we've also said that our supercharge Network we're happy to have other car makers uh use that supercharge Network um and um we're really doing doing everything we can to accelerate the Advent of sustainable cars well we're working very hard to to grow grow the rates as I said our our weekly production rate

uh year-over-year is has increased 100% And for for for a manufacturer of a large complex object that that is a huge percentage growth um and we're going to try to increase It Again by 100% year-over-year in terms of the the weekly production rate beginning start of the year to 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 enable I want to enable uh large numbers of people in cargo to go to Mars so it's not sort of about me personally want to make a journey back to Mars I mean that would be nice on a personal level but I do think it is important um that we as a species of civilization are on a path to become a true space a true space fairing civilization and a multiplet species