Tesla Motors open sources their technology

“Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

Wow.

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 manufac...