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by DoesntMatter22 1459 days ago
You are a on the low end of buyers, and there are a lot of them. But it's also not the most profitable segment. Tesla has been selling cars as fast as they can build them, until that changes I'm not going to fear another competitor.

Part of the reason Ford and others can even compete is that Tesla open sourced their patents. Ford and other's electric cars are being built on the house that Tesla built.
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ra7 1458 days ago
Hold on. No one is using Tesla's open patents because it would require them to open up all of their patents in return. What's your source Ford or others have used them?
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DoesntMatter22 1458 days ago
why would they have to open up all their patents in return? Tesla never named that as a stipulation. It's not like this is a GPL license

https://www.vennershipley.co.uk/insights-events/does-teslas-...

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hotpotamus 1459 days ago
Indeed, I have a hard time believing that $30K is the low end (I'm not doubting you on that - other people have said so too), but I suppose these are the times we live in. Either way I'm hoping to get a few more years and 10's of thousands of miles out of the current ride, so hopefully things will keep improving for when the time comes.
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