| 事件 | 时间 | 实质 | 对象 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 专利开放 (Patent Pledge) | 2014-06 | 承诺不起诉善意使用者,所有权保留 | 全行业 |
| 维修信息开放 | 2019-2026 | 服务手册/诊断/EPC 免费查阅 | 车主/维修店 |
| "开源" Model S/X | 2026-06-15 | 老款停产车全套技术文档开放 | 车主/第三方维修 |
| 时间 | 事件 | 内容 |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-2012 | 初代 Roadster 停产 | 之后公开服务手册、零件目录、电路图、连接器信息,部分资料上 GitHub |
| 2014-06-12 | Patent Pledge | 马斯克发博文宣布不对善意使用者发起专利诉讼 |
| 2019-03 | Model 3 维修资料开放 | 维修权(Right-to-Repair)压力下逐步放开 |
| 2020 | 免费发布维修信息 | 服务手册与诊断工具在 service.tesla.com 免费 |
| 2026-06-15 | 开放 Model S/X 全套 | 2012-2023 Model S + 2015-2023 Model X:维修手册(3万+页)、电路图、零件目录、诊断程序、固件接口规范 |
原标题:All Our Patent Are Belong To You(刻意玩梗 "All your base are belong to us")
作者:Elon Musk,CEO · 日期:June 12, 2014 · 来源:特斯拉官网(现已下线,本文经 Wayback Machine 存档核对)
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal.
Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.
After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible. At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn't have been more wrong.
The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales. At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.
Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day.
We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers.
We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position in this regard.