Xiaopeng to beat German carmakers to market withTesla open source?

[PrGrPa]

Saw this report in Futurism.

Tesla-Inspired Chinese Automaker Launches First All-Electric SUV

 

[Zaphod]

Not sure if that is what Tesla had in mind with opening their patents...bit more than Tesla "inspired" in my opinion. More like Tesla copied verbatim...

 

[ggr]

Saw this report in Futurism.

Tesla-Inspired Chinese Automaker Launches First All-Electric SUV

Now that's a misleading title... they even acknowledge that the Model X is an all-electric SUV.

 

[PrGrPa]

Now that's a misleading title... they even acknowledge that the Model X is an all-electric SUV.

I wonder if they’re suggesting that this is Xiaopeng’s first SUV EV?

 

[jbcarioca]

I wonder if they’re suggesting that this is Xiaopeng’s first SUV EV?

It will be their first vehicle of any kind if they can actually produce it.

 

[jbcarioca]

Xiaopeng-About Us

Ucar Leads $320M Round In Chinese Electric Car Maker Xiaopeng

The two links are relevant to the company.
It was founded in 2014 as an “internet auto company”.
Am interesting point is that one of the angel investors was tencent, which recently bought 5 of TSLA:

Tesla deal boosts Chinese presence in U.S. auto tech