The U.S. <- - FROM HERE YOUR CONTENT!> Manufacturer of electric cars has passed all patents to the public. The reason is the company to want to spread their technology.

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vehicles of the electric car manufacturer Tesla | © Guus Schoonewille / EPA / dpa

electric car specialist Tesla leaves all competitors to use its technology for free. “All of our patents are yours,” wrote Tesla founder Elon Musk in a blog entry. The company was in the spirit of open source movement gave up the rights to their patents to facilitate the uptake of electric car technology. Tesla will not take action against businesses work hard want to use the patented technology of the Californian company.

At the time the company was founded they had believed that they would protect their technology with patents before that the big car companies they copied and then used their market power to squash Tesla. But the opposite was the case. “We could not be more wrong,” Musk wrote. The “unfortunate reality” is that the big car companies developed virtually no own electric cars.

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The share of electric cars lie still always at far less than one percent of the total vehicles sold. “Our real competition is not the few electric cars that do not come from Tesla, but the flood of cars with internal combustion engines, which leave the factory every day,” Musk wrote.

Tesla is a pioneer in business with a fully-powered cars and sold more than 20,000 vehicles a year. The company wants to reduce the construction of a large battery factory production costs. The production is soon to be expanded and the current Model S added further model series. In the medium term it is planned to produce 500,000 cars a year. Currently, the company is building a network of fast-charging stations in the U.S. and in Europe. Musk is the co-founder of PayPal payment service and tried his hand as a space entrepreneur.