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Electrified by Tesla, Chinese startups are on the charge

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By Norihiko Shirouzu

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China, all the technology they can steal. Certainly, Tesla will be negotiated with about using patents there. I have zero doubt.

I might be wrong, but I think Tesla actually made their EV patents public for everyone to use just for the purpose to increase research in EV tech and take it from fringe to mainstream.

This trend does not bode well for the Japan auto industry.

Yep, the chinese are leaps ahead in EV tech gonna be impossible for anyone else to catch up. The same way that ford and GM dismissed TESLA in its early inception.

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China, all the technology they can steal. Certainly, Tesla will be negotiated with about using patents there. I have zero doubt.

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I might be wrong, but I think Tesla actually made their EV patents public for everyone to use just for the purpose to increase research in EV tech and take it from fringe to mainstream.

You are wrong. They made the patents around CHARGING STATIONS public for all, to help standardize charging stations.

China has certainly produced more EVs than any other country due to govt mandates. The technology used is a different matter. Toxic waste from huge numbers of batteries in vehicles from the 2nd generation type being used in China will be a problem for decades, if not longer. Hopefully, China will lead the world in EV recycling too.

How is Optimum Nano doing? Did they go under?

GM had a huge lead 25 yrs ago and decided it wouldn't be profitable, so they took all the vehicles back and crushed them. There's a movie about it where lessees wanted to buy the vehicles, but GM refused. Trailer for the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8

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GM had a huge lead 25 yrs ago and decided it wouldn't be profitable, so they took all the vehicles back and crushed them.

I believe GM was also concerned that if these cars became troublesome as they aged it would sully their reputation and maybe turn people against electric cars in a larger sense. They were after all the very first production EV and as such, there were problems probably lurking in them that would reveal themselves as the miles accumulated. Not their only reason for taking them all back but I think it was part of the reason.

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