In the past Elon offered it as part of a bundle, with the deal being:
You get to use the Tesla connector and superchargers
Tesla still retains all rights and ownership of the standard and can revoke access whenever they wish
You agree agree not to use Tesla in the event they infringe on your parents
Unsurprisingly, nobody accepted that deal. I wonder what it was that prompted Tesla to have a change of heart? Were they expecting the government to step in and enforce a standard, a la EU, and they wanted to get ahead of it?
The part about not suing tesla over patent infringement was the true poison pill and why no one took them up on it. Ford has over 79000 patents alone and that’s just one auto manufacture.
I’m not sure that was a valid concern, even if Ford thought that way. This is pretty common in the tech industry, as a form of Mutually Assured Destruction. Everyone has a big portfolio of patents but mainly use them defensively: I won’t nuke you if you don’t nuke me
Did Tesla not make their charger an open standard that every new ev is shipping with?
Eventually, yeah.
In the past Elon offered it as part of a bundle, with the deal being:
You get to use the Tesla connector and superchargers
Tesla still retains all rights and ownership of the standard and can revoke access whenever they wish
You agree agree not to use Tesla in the event they infringe on your parents
Unsurprisingly, nobody accepted that deal. I wonder what it was that prompted Tesla to have a change of heart? Were they expecting the government to step in and enforce a standard, a la EU, and they wanted to get ahead of it?
The part about not suing tesla over patent infringement was the true poison pill and why no one took them up on it. Ford has over 79000 patents alone and that’s just one auto manufacture.
I’m not sure that was a valid concern, even if Ford thought that way. This is pretty common in the tech industry, as a form of Mutually Assured Destruction. Everyone has a big portfolio of patents but mainly use them defensively: I won’t nuke you if you don’t nuke me