Tesla Releases Patents in Unprecedented Move to Advance Electric Vehicles
Tesla Releases Patents in Unprecedented Move to Advance Electric Vehicles
Brandon Baker
June 12, 2014
News of Tesla releasing patents is a game changer for the EV industry. Photo credit: Windell Oskay/Flickr Creative Commons
Other automakers, you, too, can build like Tesla.
CEO Elon Musk says so.
Tesla is now an open-source company, allowing its electric vehicle patents for outside use. Musk made the unprecedented announcement Thursday on his company’s blog.
“Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport,” he wrote. “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.”
News of Tesla releasing patents is a game changer for the EV industry. Photo credit: Windell Oskay/Flickr Creative Commons
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