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It’s not proprietary in the sense that the offer has been made for any car company to use the same connector technology (and even the supercharger network) roya
by natch 8y ago
It’s not proprietary in the sense that the offer has been made for any car company to use the same connector technology (and even the supercharger network) royalty free. No car companies have taken Tesla up on this offer. The ones that expressed interest wanted Tesla to make needless changes... but part of the deal with Tesla offering the tech is that it has to be done in a way that does not burn extra engineering time for the Tesla team... so the requested changes would not fly.
- stefanfisk 8y agoWhere can one read more about which competitors expressen interest and why it fell through?
- steelframe 8y agoI suspect we can't.
- natch 8y agoI don’t know. Probably these were internal communications between the companies. Where I heard about it was Musk summarized the situation in one of his interviews, but I have no idea which one.