Tesla gives his free technology – Computer Week

Electric car specialist Tesla leaves all competitors to use its technology for free. For the popularization of energy-driven vehicles should be accelerated, wrote Tesla founder Elon Musk in a blog post late Thursday. Tesla will not take action against businesses work hard want to use the patented technology of the Californian company.

“All Our patent Are Belong To You “, writes Tesla CEO Elon Musk
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” We felt compelled us to apply for patents because we were worried that large auto companies would

copy our technology and then use their power of production, sales and marketing, to defeat Tesla, “Musk wrote. But the business of electric vehicles is still small. “Our real competition is not the few electric cars that do not come from Tesla, but the flood of cars with a combustion engine, leave the every day work.”

A Tesla Model S
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Tesla is a pioneer in the business with a fully electric-powered cars and sold well last 20,000 vehicles a year. The production is soon to be expanded and the current Model S added further model series. At the same time, the company is building a network of fast-charging stations in the U.S. and in Europe. Musk is a billionaire co-founder of PayPal payment service that tries itself as a space entrepreneur. (Dpa / tc)

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