Remember when earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk released all of the patents related to his company's offerings in the hope that all of the major players would eagerly buy into his vision thing of widespread EV production?
It hasn't turned out as well as Musk had hoped.
Autoblog Green reports only Mahindra is interested in the patents and their potential application in future products; the company once had the e2o EV in its lineup, and is working on an EV version of its Verito Sedan. Meanwhile, General Motors is more interested in how Tesla does its business than how to put together a Model Volt S, Honda is satisfied with its own EV technology, and most of the other players aren't saying much.
The lack of excitement may be attributed to the fact that, according to The Motley Fool:
Tesla is not revealing its trade secrets. There often is only so much information that you can get from a patent. Only Tesla knows how to put it all together in a cost-effective manner. Besides, by the time the competition digests the patents, some of them may have become outdated, and Tesla likely will have advanced to the next generation of its technology.
Though the patents seem to have more in common with a Cosby Christmas sweater than an Apple iPhone, Nissan and BMW are having secret meetings with Tesla to discuss charging technology. BMW of North America's product and technology communications manager Matthew Russell proclaimed his employer and Tesla were "interested in the success of electro mobility" for their electric vehicles, though he declined to comment on similar announces from BMW's competitors.
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