Elon Musk says Tesla would now not are attempting to crush competitors, and the company is launch to licensing its self-utilizing gadget and battery technology (TSLA)

• Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday that Tesla would take into accout licensing its self-utilizing gadget and supplying battery technology to other automakers.
• “We’re correct attempting to crawl up sustainable energy, now not crush competitors!” Musk said.
• Musk’s comments got here in response to a weblog put up about German automakers attempting to shut the technological gap between them and Tesla.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electrical automaker is livid by transferring into the industry of lending gadget and supplying hardware to its competitors, floating the premise in a tweet Tuesday.

“Tesla is launch to licensing gadget and supplying powertrains & batteries. We’re correct attempting to crawl up sustainable energy, now not crush competitors!” Musk said.

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2020

The comments got here in response to a tweet linking to a myth from Teslerati about German automakers’ plans to buy up to Tesla of their kind of electrical vehicles.

Automakers had been pretty clear about its technological head launch, with one Volkswagen executive asserting Tesla has a 10-twelve months jump on competitors, based completely totally on Reuters. Audi’s new CEO, Markus Duesmann, additionally suggested Reuters that Tesla has as a minimum a two-twelve months advantage “by come of computing and gadget architecture, and in self sustaining utilizing as effectively.”

When pressed extra by a Twitter user about whether Tesla would take into accout licensing its flagship self-utilizing gadget, Autopilot, Musk answered: “Sure.”

Within the previous, Tesla equipped powertrains and batteries to Mercedes-Benz and Toyota when the corporations had been Tesla shareholders, but it for hotfoot has since ended those packages, based completely totally on Electrek.