We recently reported that Audi in a number of key areas of development and creation of electric vehicles. Earlier, the head of Volkswagen Herbert Diess (Herbert Diess) frankly stated that his company is lagging behind Tesla in the field of software. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced his willingness to help.
In response to recent comments from automakers, Musk tweeted, βTesla is open to software licensing, powertrain and battery supplies. We are just trying to accelerate the development of environmentally friendly energy, not crush the competition!β He even noted that Tesla would be willing to license its Autopilot, although he has said in the past that this would be difficult to implement. Although there is a limit: Tesla is not going to share its release of intestinal gases in cars.
Haha no one can ever have our top secret fart technology!!
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
By the way, Tesla has already supplied powertrain and batteries to Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, both of which were shareholders of Tesla, but this stopped in 2015 after the completion of their respective programs. Back in 2014, Musk announced that Tesla was opening up its patents to help other automakers accelerate the development of electric vehicles.
However, the move has been criticized for not being "open" in the true sense of the word, as the company only "promised" not to sue any company using the patented technology "in good faith". Such nuanced wording has actually led to few companies taking advantage of Tesla's patented technologies.
The only company to openly admit to using Tesla's patented technology is Chinese automaker Xpeng, which Tesla actually ended up suing β though not for using the patented technology, but for stealing the Autopilot source code.
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Source: 3dnews.ru