Elon Musk: Tesla is willing to supply software, batteries and powertrains to third parties

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said his company is willing to license software to other companies. He also says Tesla is open to providing powertrains and batteries.

Musk has let us know on Twitter. He says that the goal is to accelerate renewable energy and not to crush competitors. As for software Musk confirms that it is about the autopilot technology in Tesla cars, even though he indicated earlier that it is not easy to implement it elsewhere.

No names or further details are mentioned, but Volkswagen, for example, makes no secret that it lags behind in terms of software development in the production of electric cars. According to the CEO of the Volkswagen Group, Herbert Diess, Tesla is ahead of all other manufacturers. In doing so, he spoke with awe and appreciation for the fact that 500,000 Teslas function as a neural network, constantly retrieving data, and offering customers new experiences and improvements every two weeks. According to another Volkswagen CEO, Thomas Ulbrich, Tesla has a lead of about ten years, but he also said that Volkswagen is catching up quickly. Volkswagen would have had quite a few software problems with the Volkswagen ID.3, a new, fully electric hatchback that can be ordered recently.

It remains to be seen whether Tesla will actually provide such licensing and deliveries to competing manufacturers. For example, Musk’s company has supplied batteries and powertrains to Mercedes-Benz and Toyota in the past, but that stopped in 2015. Musk then said that the limited availability of batteries was to blame and that all batteries were needed for the production of Tesla’s. own electric vehicles. Certainly with the expected further increase in electric cars, battery shortages will still play a role and it seems unlikely that Tesla will quickly switch to battery deliveries to competitors.