Xiaopeng Motors, Thanks Tesla for Open Source Patents

G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com

Xiaopeng Motors, Thanks Tesla for Open Source Patents 

It was only a matter of time and someone coughing up money before someone would use Tesla Open Patents to build a EV Competitor. Xiaopeng Motors is that company and thanks to Tesla, the dream of a young man is becoming reality. Musk has always said the focus is the drive to accelerate the change to EV Auto's. With this dream we now have the XPeng SUV EV.

Henry Xia took this to hear in 2014 when once Tesla had announced the open source of their patents that this young engineer could build his own dream company. With the help of other young engineers, Mr. Xia took a look at the market and chose to come out with his vision of an EV SUV. There is no complete listing of all the open source patents Xiaopeng Motors used but clearly enough to say he hit the same consistency from battery pack to external look minus the gullwing doors and to the dash. Speculation is the top module on the auto is a Lidar unit.

Comparison of the batteries where Xiaopeng uses Samsung battery cells via Tesla Panasonic cells.

Xiaopeng Battery 

Tesla Battery

Xiaopeng Dash

Tesla Dash

Xiaopeng Dash Screen

Tesla Dash Screen

Xiaopeng Motors raised 320 Million to start production beyond the 15 hand built models. They are working to raise 1.4 billion US to ensure the ability to produce 100,000 of the XPeng SUV EV. With the first round of money, the young CEO hired away Tesla learning lead for Autopilot, Junli Gu to head up Xiaopeng autonomous driving efforts as they plant to continue to copy Tesla using the Open source patents where possible to offer the same or better versions.

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XPeng has even copied the same charging port and standard from Tesla.

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