Tesla Kaiyuan is also crazy to create "open source car"

Tesla CEO Ilon Mask (Elon Musk) announced that the company will surprising "open source model", open all patents outside, encourage other enterprises to develop advanced electric vehicles. Open source car precedent In 1999, Markus Mers took an open source car program Oscar, although the new version of the new version was released in 2006, but the recent OS Vehicle company launched the world's first open source car "Tabby", users can purchase basic parts Manual or teaching video DIY a car. The first example of electric car open source The open source car is a lot, but the open source electric car, Tesla is the first time, and it is also the most important time. It can be considered that Tesla has once again set off a wave of open source movement. Open source electric vehicle Tesla is considered a leader in the electric motor market, with strong strength in the relevant cells, electronic equipment and software, with a total patent of approximately 200 items. Mask said that these patents will be open to the outside. He wrote in the blog: "Tesla will not launch a patent lawsuit against any company with our technology." Carter Driscoll, US Investment Bank MLV & CO, said that although this move is not radical in the technology industry, it is very rare in the automotive market. At this time, Turkla plans to build a large-scale small lithium battery production plant in the United States. In addition to supplying lithium batteries, the company is likely to find other customers. Deriscol said that other customers have created the market to "super factory" (GigaFactory). Masque revealed that he is because many car manufacturers have not developed electric vehicles long distances. Most models have only 100 miles (about 160 kilometers) per charge each time, and the maximum battery distance of Tesra Model S is not. He said in a conference call that Tesla has begun to promote the first electric car 7 years ago, he originally expected that electric vehicles will have a long development. But until today, the proportion of electric vehicles in the US car sales is less than 1%. He said that when he proposed this idea, some directors and managers were very surprised. But in the end, they still agreed to this program. Tesla does not think that this will bring huge risks. He said that rapidly developing companies can usually be able to lead their own patents and attract top talents more important. "Science and technology leadership is not defined by patents, but by a company to the attractiveness of the world's top engineers." Mask wrote, "We believe that open source concept is not, but will not weaken Tesla's status, but Will strengthen our status. " In addition to the car, Tesla is still building a high-speed charging station network. Open patents are also expected to enhance the utilization of such facilities. Related Reading: 2013 Top Ten incredible open source hardware projects Open source hardware is also crazy