To accelerate the progress of electric and hybrid cars, located in Michigan, Ford has made its patents for electric cars available - now they can be used by competitors!
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Representatives of the company are sure that the industry needs cooperation between producers, not rivalry. This is necessary for development. Not so long ago, the California company Tesla made patent for its electric car affordable. Ilon Mask, the head of the company, said that the world only benefits when technological inventions become available to everyone. Now the example of the mask was followed by "Ford." In the lineup at the moment there are six different models. Patents - six hundred and fifty. More than four hundred of them were received in 2014. They will be used by other developers who plan to create their own hybrid or electric car. Among the patents are technologies for prolonging battery life, temperature control and battery energy recovery, and a driver action analysis system that helps to save fuel.