Haha, love the line about patents being a lottery ticket for lawsuits. Totally true!
So... this is their IP. And I know that there are a bunch of other "open ware" platforms out there, but I would suggest that the true guts are still not disclosed (fabrication methods, etc)... I am reminded of that bad ass 3D CAD modelling software that they developed in house that works exactly like Jarvis on Iron Man - they create and manipulate models with hand gestures and touching screens! Did that kind of tool get released for free? Doubtful... there are ways to retain your true advantages without going down the patent road.
I agree with posters that this is a move to encourage their standards to be widely adopted and accelerate market penetration of their alternative.
Also, and I am not sure why I haven't thought of this before... but if Tesla releases these details... and it's not filed as a patent... what is preventing some assclown patent troll from taking this to the USPTO and filing a patent on it, and then going after everyone who is using it?
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Originally Posted by Muta
Oil companies will hate this move, that's for sure.
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Why?
They'll need someone to burn all of the excess natural gas that's being produced by the "fracking revolution" and the Obama administration has completely set the table to replace the majority of US grid electricity with natural gas fired plants instead of coal. Increasing electrical demand will completely increase natural gas demand - a very good thing for oil companies in North America as we have several gassy basins, and not enough consumption.
US liquids demand has been quite flat and declining for some time now... and projected to continue. "Mautre economy" effect (read: outsourcing economy). Still plenty of demand for liquids coming from everywhere else OECD countries have pushed the production to meet consumption to.
Take a look at
BP's 2014 energy outlook. Most of the growth in energy demand comes from power generation and industrial demands, not transportation fuel needs. Slides 10 shows pretty clearly how industrialization is driving energy demand growth... and slide 16 shows very clearly how there is a massive decline in expected coal and oil consumption with a marked increase in dry gas consumption (and the joke of it all) a HUGE gain in renewables.