特斯拉CEO埃隆·穆斯克爲什麼要開放電動汽車專利大綱

Take our patents, please!
請收下我們的專利吧！

That’s what inventor and automaker Elon Musk is saying today, as the Tesla Motors TSLA 0.07% CEOsaid in a blog post that his company “will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Musk said the patents that used to line a wall in Tesla’s Palo Alto headquarters have been removed “in the spirit of the open source movement” and to help further advance electric car technology.
這就是發明人和汽車製造埃隆o穆斯克日前說過的話。這位特斯拉汽車（Tesla Motors）的CEO在一篇博客中表示，他的公司“將不會針對任何善意使用我們技術的任何人提起訴訟”。穆斯克表示，過去曾經用來裝點特斯拉帕洛阿爾託總部一面牆壁的專利已經按照“開源運動的精神”移走，以幫助進一步提升電動汽車科技。

(The blog post is titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You” – a nod to an early Internet meme that originated with an early ’90′s video game.)
【這篇博客的標題是：《我們所有的專利都屬於你》（All Our Patent Are Belong To You），呼應了源於上世紀90年代視頻遊戲的互聯網文化元素。】

Musk added that this announcement represents a reversal of thinking for him, as the Tesla founder used to go out of his way to obtain patents in order to protect his technology from his larger rivals in the auto industry, whose massive infrastructure could potentially push Tesla out of the market. He now says that strategy only serves “to stifle progress” in the field of electric vehicles.
穆斯克補充說，這項聲明代表了他的反思。因爲這位特斯拉創始人過去曾不遺餘力地獲取專利，以保護自己的技術不被大型汽車廠商染指。這些競爭對手的龐大基礎架構可能把特斯拉擠出市場。他現在表示，這個策略只會使電動汽車領域的“發展陷入僵化”。

“We couldn’t have been more wrong,” Musk says. “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.”
“我們不可能犯比這更嚴重的錯誤了，”穆斯克說。“不幸的現實是截然相反的：大汽車廠商的電動汽車項目（或任何不燃燒碳氫化合物汽車計劃）很小，甚至都不存在，平均僅佔各自汽車銷售總量的不足1%。”

The Tesla founder says it is impossible for his company to build new cars quickly enough to make a difference when it comes to climate change. “We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform,” Musk writes.
這位特斯拉創始人說，他的公司生產新車的速度還不夠快，不可能改變氣候變化的形勢。穆斯克寫道：“我們認爲，這個快速進化的公共科技平臺能給特斯拉、其他製造電動汽車的公司以及整個世界都帶來好處。

He adds that a “determined competitor” can usually find a way around patents anyway, and that taking an open source position is the best way “to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers.”
他補充說，“意志堅定的競爭者”通常無論如何都會找到繞開專利的途徑，而這使得開源成爲“吸引、激勵世界上最有才華工程技術人才的最佳方式”。

The announcement comes a week after Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, at which Musk – a billionaire who is also CEO at private space exploration company SpaceX – said he plans to stay on as Tesla’s CEO for at least another four or five years.
聲明發布之前的一週，特斯拉召開了年度股東大會。這位同時也在擔任私人空間開發公司SpaceX公司 CEO的億萬富翁在這次股東大會上表示，他計劃未來至少四、五年將繼續擔任特斯拉公司CEO。