Topic: All Our Patent Are Belong To You - By Elon Musk, CEO (Read 1864 times)
Wow Elon Musk is amazing !! For having a very wide vision for the better life
Elon Musk is a real visionary. A real Tesla of 21st century. Patents do make it difficult for the third world countries to take advantage of the advance technology.
A very humane move from Elon Musk. He really wants to make this world better rather than just earn money!
In a world full of self centered billionnaires ans corrupt politicians, elon musk is a breath of fresh air. Imagine if more powerful people have a vision like him and tesla, then we probably would be living better lives without fear of climate change destroying us all in the near future.
Tesla has preliminary deal for Tesla owned factory in China
Read more at https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/tesla-has-preliminary-deal-for-tesla-owned-factory-in-china.html.
Quote from: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/tesla-has-preliminary-deal-for-tesla-owned-factory-in-china.html
The preliminary deal still offers Tesla control over its trade secrets and may give the company leverage to negotiate better terms with the Chinese government in the future. Tesla hopes to complete the deal by the end of the year.
Tesla to build cars in Shanghai while still paying tariffs on them would be a coup for the Chinese government. If Tesla were making cars in the Shanghai area, it would have a powerful incentive to buy many, if not most, of the parts in China, strengthening China's base of suppliers for the fast-growing electric car industry.
China already has the world's largest market for electric cars.
LMC Automotive, a global consulting firm, estimates that 295,000 battery-electric cars will be sold this year in China, compared with 287,000 in the rest of the world combined. LMC predicts that China's total will nearly triple in the next two years, while the rest of the world's will merely double.
Tesla to build cars in Shanghai while still paying tariffs on them would be a coup for the Chinese government. If Tesla were making cars in the Shanghai area, it would have a powerful incentive to buy many, if not most, of the parts in China, strengthening China's base of suppliers for the fast-growing electric car industry.
China already has the world's largest market for electric cars.
LMC Automotive, a global consulting firm, estimates that 295,000 battery-electric cars will be sold this year in China, compared with 287,000 in the rest of the world combined. LMC predicts that China's total will nearly triple in the next two years, while the rest of the world's will merely double.
Read more at https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/tesla-has-preliminary-deal-for-tesla-owned-factory-in-china.html.
Tesla's Secret Second Floor
Read more at https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-secret-second-floor/.
As much as they raved about the amazing automation, gigantic presses, and hundreds of robots, the reality was they only saw half of the actual manufacturing that was taking place in the building. Unknown to most visitors, the factory's "secret" second floor built many of Tesla's battery, power electronics, and drive-train systems. It was home to some of the most advanced manufacturing and automation systems in the company. Some of the robots moved at such high speeds that their arms needed to be built from carbon fiber instead of steel.
Though it was obvious why we were building the systems at the heart of our product, such as the battery and motors, many people had difficulty understanding why we manufactured high-voltage cables, displays, fuses, and other smaller systems.
Though it was obvious why we were building the systems at the heart of our product, such as the battery and motors, many people had difficulty understanding why we manufactured high-voltage cables, displays, fuses, and other smaller systems.
Read more at https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-secret-second-floor/.
Nice to hear they actually did it!
Now I hope we'll see an increase in electric cars being promoted/sold in the next couple of years.
Now I hope we'll see an increase in electric cars being promoted/sold in the next couple of years.
Probably won't be many producers until Elon starts taking real business away from the automakers. That will take at least five years. The gigafactory needs to be built first. The Model E is just a preliminary design. Elon is truly amazing, but this is a slow process. SpaceX will have landed a payload on Mars before you see any huge market share for electrics.
Nice to hear they actually did it!
Now I hope we'll see an increase in electric cars being promoted/sold in the next couple of years.
Now I hope we'll see an increase in electric cars being promoted/sold in the next couple of years.
This is a remarkable move, I bow to you Elon Musk. So... un-american. 
Hey. I wish more companies were like Tesla. It has to be frustrating that you're getting blocked in some states because big car dealerships don't want to be told they're obsolete. And good for you for making your technology open-source.
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.
At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.
At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.
Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.
We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform.
Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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