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Re:Tesla posts big loss, cuts production of Models X and S t... by dboreham on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:47PM (#15607183)
Wait...what? Someone built a bunch of charging stations all over the place and they only work with one vendor's cars!?!?
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Re:Tesla posts big loss, cuts production of Models X and S t... by namlem on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:49PM (#15607194)
Other car companies are free to make their cars compatible, since Tesla released the patents. It's just that no one has yet.
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Re:Tesla posts big loss, cuts production of Models X and S t... by bjl on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:19AM (#15609677)
Note that Tesla has not offered an explicit license for those patents, so there's no guarantee that companies using the patents won't get sued. It was a pure PR stunt.
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