Bold Gambit: Tesla Gives Up Patents To Open Source Movement

Posted by | June 13, 2014 11:30 | Filed under: Planet Top Stories


The unpredictable Elon Musk makes an audacious move. Could it hasten the development and increase the popularity of the electric car?

Tesla gives up patents to ‘open source movement’ (via AFP)

Electric carmaker Tesla announced Thursday it was giving up its patents to “the open source movement,” to help spur electric vehicle technology. The unusual move comes with Tesla enjoying huge success, but against a backdrop of multiplying legal squabbles…

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

2 responses to Bold Gambit: Tesla Gives Up Patents To Open Source Movement

  1. DoobiusGamer June 14th, 2014 at 00:11

    This was such good news when I read it yesterday! I look forward to a day when the solar grid supplies electricity for these cars and we can finally be off the carbon train for good! IT WILL HAPPEN! The oil lobby can cry all they want, but we WILL wean ourselves off their nasty products and we will finally have a SANE, UNLIMITED energy source!

  2. DoobiusGamer June 14th, 2014 at 00:11

    This was such good news when I read it yesterday! I look forward to a day when the solar grid supplies electricity for these cars and we can finally be off the carbon train for good! IT WILL HAPPEN! The oil lobby can cry all they want, but we WILL wean ourselves off their nasty products and we will finally have a SANE, UNLIMITED energy source!

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