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Tesla submitted their charging standard as the standard for CCS. It was refused.
by mlindner 4y ago
Tesla submitted their charging standard as the standard for CCS. It was refused.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoDo you have a citation for this that gives the details and exact reasons for the refusal? I’ve searched pretty extensively and found nothing. I love my Tesla but I’ve learned to check primary sources when it comes to any claim made by Tesla or Elon Musk.
- vel0city 4y agoThey've continued to push their patent pledge. If you want to use "NACS", you've got to turn over all your IP. This was true years ago, its true today. While they published some schematics on their website for the connector, there's still patents and other proprietary bits to actually communicate and get the charging infrastructure to work. Without that associated IP, the schematics are effectively useless. This isn't a huge deal for a company like Aptera, they're probably going to use a good bit of Tesla's IP in other situations for their EV and don't have large teams constantly cranking out IP. But companies like Ford, VW, Stallantis, etc., they've got like a combined billion dollars worth of IP they'd be turning over to all their competitors. A big win for Tesla and smaller companies like Aptera, but not necessarily a big win for the legacy companies to essentially write down all that IP value. If they had just asked for normal kind of licensing, I imagine there probably could have been more support for the connector years ago. But they put it behind the patent pledge to try and eliminate intellectual property rights in the automotive industry assuming it would be a juicy enough carrot for everyone to chase. Turns out, it wasn't.