Re:India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries
by rishav_sharan on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:27AM
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I think the point of this rule is that the manufacturer can't put a DRM on the car. India is trying to trying to set up electric cars like it has dealt on mobile devices - the sim is separately sold from the device and any sim from any company can be paired with any mobile phone.
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Re:India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries
by pkaye on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:38AM
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Where does it state that DRM is not permitted? They are just allowing the sale and registration without batteries.
Re:India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries
by paranoidrobot on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:27PM
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I didn't see anything forbidding DRM.
Even if DRM itself wasn't permitted, there's nothing stopping the manufacturers patenting some aspect of the battery system.
At a guess, the connector would be the cheapest and easiest place to come up with some patentable novelty that doesn't actually matter. It could be physical OR an electronic interface of some kind. Then it's a case of "Well, yes, you can license the connector design... for $xxx per unit"