Tsinghua Professor: Without Tesla's open patents, there would be no new energy in China today
Recently, Tsinghua professor Li Xianjun circulated a short video, which sparked heated discussions.
He said: If it weren't for Tesla's open patents, China wouldn't have so many electric vehicles. The implication is that without Tesla's open patents, there would be no China's new energy today.
According to the information on the official website of Tsinghua University, Professor Li Xianjun is a doctoral supervisor, director of the automotive industry system engineering discipline, director of the automobile development research center, and director of the advanced training center of automobile enterprises.
Professor Li Xianjun, may be in the automotive related aspects of the profession is undoubted, but for new energy vehicles, his cognition may not be enough, after all, traditional fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles are completely two fields, even Tsinghua professors, do not dare to say that they have the advantage of poor information, the reason is very simple, it is precisely some elderly intellectuals, for the acceptance of new things and new information, is not so open, but easy to fall into their own information cocoon.
Regarding this remark, Ouyang Minggao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of the China Electric Vehicle 100 Association, also made a special refutation. He was bitterly criticized at the China Electric Vehicle 100 Results Conference and the 100 Forum (2024) Expert Media Exchange Conference.
"In addition, there are some people who worship foreign countries and do not believe that China can innovate, for example, this electric car was made because of Tesla's open patent, which does not exist at all, but it is widely circulated because they do not believe that Chinese can innovate." ”
On the degree of understanding and professionalism of new energy vehicles, Academician Ouyang Minggao is undoubtedly stronger than Professor Li Xianjun of Tsinghua University, whose words are more convincing, more information and professional knowledge to support, at a glance.
Tesla's open patents are a typical way to identify cognitive ability, and many media reported that on June 12, 2014, Tesla disclosed more than 270 patents and claimed that it would not pursue companies that use patents in good faith.
But the question is, how many patents has Tesla opened, and are there any prerequisites?
Question 1: Tesla has only 8 patents open in China, and only 3 of them have been authorized.
In 2014, Tesla had 271 global patents, including 263 invention patents and 8 appearance patents. Of the 263 invention patents, 183 were filed only in the United States, and in other places, only 8 in China. Moreover, 263 were applications, only 141 were authorized, and only 3 of the 8 in China were authorized. Is China's new energy vehicles developed by relying on Tesla's three patents?
Question 2: 135 of these patents were sold by Tesla in exchange for a $435 million loan, and the commercial rights of these 135 patents do not belong to Tesla. The remaining patents, a large part, are jointly cited with other car companies such as Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, etc.
Question 3: It is said to be free and open, but there is a condition, that is, once you use Tesla's patents, you cannot sue Tesla with any patents and intellectual property rights. Do you still think Tesla is generous?
Question 4: The patented technologies related to battery electronic control disclosed by Tesla that year, including battery type, motor type, and rotor working mode, have been proven to be not the correct technical route and have been eliminated.
Question 5: Tesla was a global open patent at that time, why did it always only say that Chinese car companies benefited? Could it be that the patents are all in simplified Chinese and cannot be translated?
As for why Tesla opened patents, there are new energy vehicles in China today, mainly because the news of Tesla's public patents was released on June 12, 2014, only 23 days after the national announcement on May 19, 2014 that the large-scale application of new energy vehicles kicked off. At this point in time, stepping on it very accurately, coupled with the spread of some unscrupulous media and some people with low cognition, it has become Tesla's free disclosure of 4,000 patents to promote the development of China's new energy vehicle industry for 50 years, which is completely nonsense and absurd. Are you still saying that Tesla doesn't know how to market? This is top marketing!
Compared with fuel vehicles, electric vehicles themselves are the product of scientific and technological equality, many parts rely on suppliers, to say that special fans do not like to hear, if it were not for the loan from Shanghai to Tesla to build a factory, CATL to provide batteries, BYD open patents, and China's supply chain to provide accessories, Tesla would have died 800 times.