A confident Tesla is sharing its patents with other companies

Is Tesla far enough ahead of the pack to make this worth it?

Tesla has joined the open-source movement, and has announced that it will shares its patents with others to help advance the electrical vehicle (EV) industry.

In a June 12th, 2014 Tesla web log post penned by the co-founder and CEO Elon Musk explains that Tesla was created to help "accelerate the advent of sustainable send."

Lately, Tesla has been playing a piddling to competitively by laying "intellectual property landmines behind" them to slow downward competitors, says Musk in the post.

Further, into the post he explains that Tesla began using patents since it was afraid that larger automakers would be able to have Tesla'due south ideas and use their considerable manufacturing and marketing strengths to beat out Tesla out of the market.

All our patent are belong to youhttps://t.co/HPK5R5UMS6 pic.twitter.com/t99riofeCI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 31, 2019

Since then Tesla'southward realized that the significant automakers lagged behind them more than it expected. Therefore, the comapny at present feels safe to permit others use their intellectual belongings.

"We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all do good from a common, apace-evolving technology platform," reads a line from the blog post.

Overall, Tesla does have a lot of technology that makes its vehicles very attractive to modern consumers. This makes it interesting to see if this open up-sourced plan includes things similar Autopilot tech or other Tesla features that are less related to the car beingness electric.

Source: Tesla