Dieter Zetsche, Wang Cheng.
“What Elon Musk did, is taking batteries from consumer electronics, combining them to big packs with intelligent battery management systems. That is no rocket science.”
Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler AG, comments on Tesla’s recent move to make its patents public, saying it may be good PR for the California carmaker, but that it cannot teach Daimler anything it did not already know.
autogazette.de (in German)
“What Elon Musk did, is taking batteries from consumer electronics, combining them to big packs with intelligent battery management systems. That is no rocket science.”
Wang Cheng from the China Automotive Technology & Research Center explains why it would be useful for China to let companies other than carmakers take a stab at conquering the EV market, with Tesla being the best example that it can push industry and politics forward.
bloomberg.com
“Traditional automakers are under pressure to maintain growth and have not devoted 100 percent to EVs. The success of Tesla inspired both the industry regulators and players in the sense that a non-automaker can really make EVs work.”
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