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Musk is "open source" again!
In the latest news, Musk said on Tesla's annual summary call that Tesla is open to licensing its own technology in order to promote a sustainable energy revolution on a global scale.
On the issue of seeking cooperation with Chinese automakers, Musk said that he is willing to license technologies to Chinese automakers, including Tesla's core technologies such as charging and FSD (Tesla's self-driving technology with a bias towards visual perception).
Musk is known to be very generous on the issue of "open source" patents, saying many years ago that his company will not do anything that is not conducive to competition, but rather encourages competition and innovation.
In fact, Musk has not broken his promise, Tesla, the leading company in the field of electric vehicles, has open-sourced all patents, and anyone can use their patents for free.
Musk stressed that they will give their charger technology to other manufacturers for free, and they do not have a monopoly. He also revealed that SpaceX also does not use (exclusive) patents and is completely open.
Regarding Musk's patent "open source", it has been talked about by netizens in the mainland.
Some netizens have become Musk's fans because of this, and they feel that his behavior of giving up huge commercial interests in order to promote the technological progress of all mankind is very great.
There are even many netizens who believe that the progress and take-off of China's new energy vehicle industry in recent years rely on Musk's public Tesla car patent technology.
However, not everyone agrees with this statement, and some people believe that the statement that "China's new energy vehicle development relies on Musk's open source technology patents" is groundless.
Because there is no media or netizens at present, the specific situation of the application of Musk's disclosed patents on domestic car companies has been clearly counted and displayed.
Therefore, Musk's declaration of "willingness to license technology to Chinese car companies" this time may be discounted if it is still an illusory general statement, or if it only stays in words.
According to the current development status of China's new energy vehicle companies, the two Tesla technologies that Musk announced that he is willing to license this time may not be very attractive.
First, about charging technology, Tesla's Edamame 3 and Edamame Y's charging technology has not caught up with the 800V architecture of domestic car companies, while Huawei's fully liquid-cooled supercharging has been adapted to the 200-1000V charging range, which can almost be said to match all current new energy vehicle brands.
The second is about autonomous driving technology. Now everyone has long known that the so-called autonomous driving is "pseudo" automatic driving, which is purely commercial hype, even if Tesla's automatic driving has been shouted for many years, it is essentially assisted driving.
And Tesla's assisted driving status is a bit embarrassing, because Huawei soon launched a very advanced "intelligent driving" technology after entering the automotive field, compared with Tesla's FSD that favors pure vision solutions, Huawei's "intelligent driving" mode of lidar solutions is more mature and safer.
It is said that practice brings true knowledge, and it is the mule or the horse that comes out to slip and slip will know.
Now the overwhelming Huawei "intelligent driving" test on the Internet is amazing, and it has been mass-produced in many models such as Wenjie. But now it is rare to see Tesla's "automatic driving" test on the Internet, and many car owners who have added money to Tesla's "automatic driving" system are also afraid to open it easily.
Therefore, it is unclear whether Tesla's announcement at this time that it is willing to license charging and FSD technology to Chinese car companies can play a role in promoting the development of China's new energy vehicle industry.
I hope that Musk will show the application of his specific patented technology to the majority of netizens as soon as possible, only in this way can it be confirmed that their technology is indeed helpful to China.
After all, most of the Chinese are atheists and pragmatists, and it is only a matter of time before the "gods" who have no actual combat records fall off the altar.
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