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The US doesn't make a lot of this type of battery because there is a consortium of patent-holders who charge enough to make LFP less economically viable that wa
by CarVac 5y ago
The US doesn't make a lot of this type of battery because there is a consortium of patent-holders who charge enough to make LFP less economically viable that wasn't able to secure all the needed patents in China.
- whimsicalism 5y agoDidn't this also happen with airplanes in like the 1910s? Can't we fix it in a similar way?
- Robotbeat 5y agoClimate mitigation depends on patent reform, sounds like.
- sbierwagen 5y agoPatents have a 20 year lifetime. US5910382 and US6514640 have already expired. It might speed up climate mitigation, but it's not strictly required for it to happen.
- elihu 5y agoI think the main patents that haven't expired yet are about to expire in 2022.
- monkeybutton 5y agoWhy charge so much to license that no one will bother? Is it sunk cost thinking? Some money from licensing is better than nothing at all isn't it?
- space_rock 5y agoIt's amazing how broken of a system it is. The theory is ok but I today's world they don't work. Change the time scale to 10 years at least. Or require active use even better
- RNCTX 5y agoTo create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly. All of this was set in our future when corporations were not prohibited from having patents.
- gruez 5y ago> To create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly. That doesn't answer the question. Having a monopoly is only a means to an end (ie. making money), not an end unto itself.
- space_rock 5y agoIt's crazy to think of the economic damage that patents cause
- sudosysgen 5y agoA123 systems make LiFePO4 batteries without paying the royalties but they're still even more expensive than normal Li-ion.