Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers

Re:Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers by JohnBooty on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:33AM (#31570724)

Does Tesla's patent portfolio serve as a competitive advantage? I don't follow such things, so I don't know.

Regardless of patent portfolio, I think it's a safe bet that Tesla views their (vaporware-ish?) self driving tech as a competitive advantage. Probably why they emphasize it so much and Elon seems absolutely fixated on it.

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Re:Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers by randerp on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:41AM (#31570836)

If I interpret this correctly[0], their patents have no competitive value?

It just feels like we're at an inflection point where Tesla's production will soon be dwarfed by competitors and consumers having the choice of dozens of EVs vs a handful is going to drastically shift the market.

[0] - https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#patent-pled...

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Re:Ford F-150 Lightning Reaches Its First Customers by bryanlarsen on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:48AM (#31570932)

That's just a bog standard mutual license patent clause wrapped up in some silly "open source" phrasing.

> where Tesla's production will soon be dwarfed by competitors

If theycan get enough batteries, that's currently the bottleneck for most manufacturers. Tesla has spent the last decade securing battery supply.

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