IDRA supply globally but that does not change the fact that a new product that is co-developed with an external partner would be available on the free market immediately. It would be bad business practice to have this being the case. I would imagine the 9000T press would make it as generally available product in time. I would agree that the use barriers for this product are substantial and unlikely to have generated a non-TESLA order in this time scale.
Actually they DO have multiple non-Tesla orders for the 6000 and at least a couple fo the 9000. That is absolutely NOT bad business practice. Tesla does not have the ability or inclination to restrict it's innovations as they have repeatedly said:
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No Patent Suit Against People Who Use Our Tech In Good Faith": Elon Musk.Feb 2, 2019
That does not mean that any of the GigaPresses can be easily adopted by anybody else. Many of us have posted the difficulties in heating, cooling, avoiding sticking, maintaining plasticity, avoiding cracks, eliminating special coatings and much much more.
The very positive part of all this technical advance that Tesla has is that by the time someone else has figured out how to apply any given Tesla technology they'll be off on newer and better ones.
I offer a tiny list of Tesla things that eventually has been being adopted by others:
-Li-ion batteries for cars;
-The BMS (in 2015 Tesla explained it all publicly in NHTSA hearings, nobody copied that until years later);
- The proprietary inconel alloy that allowed Ludicrous mode in 2015;
- OTA updates;
- active OTA monitoring of auto potential failures;
-the Octovalve
Those six are all fundamental to Tesla technological advantage. Every one could be copied and deployed without fear of conflict from Tesla. Even the most obvious and easy to copy, OTA updates and vehicle monitoring, are easy to copy and execute. OEM auto companies cannot even imagine how to really do those too because they do not allow continuous innovation.
Now think about how to actually deploy a GigaPress. That requires a highly integrated operating system. That requires several new technologies just to deploy.
Anybody who thinks Tesla tries to avoid revealing their technologies is simply not understanding Tesla pace of innovation, much less the Tesla vision.
Factually all this is why Tesla gets along so well in China. Tesla philosophy is consistent with "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" which is also the general view of China. Only people who think they're inferior depend on patent infringement issues, in the Tesla view.
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