patent Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:04:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ford’s Back Wheel Could Turn into Electric Unicycle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-back-wheel-electric-unicycle/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-back-wheel-electric-unicycle/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:07:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58556 Ford wants to make every back wheel of their cars able to transform into an electric unicycle. On many occasions, even those among us strongly attached to their cars, wish they had a bicycle or some sort of a compact electric one- or two-wheeler vehicle in the trunk. This could have made these last few miles […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-back-wheel-electric-unicycle/feed/ 0 58556 Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology – Toyota Opens Patent Vault https://www.greenoptimistic.com/advancing-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology-toyota-opens-patent-vault-20150106/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/advancing-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology-toyota-opens-patent-vault-20150106/#respond Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51136 Over the last couple of decades, a lot of research and development money has been poured into hydrogen fuel cell technology, one form of clean transportation technology that Toyota has hedged its bets on, as opposed to battery electric vehicles. In fact, Toyota has gone so far as to say that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/advancing-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology-toyota-opens-patent-vault-20150106/feed/ 0 51136 CarCharging Group is First to Touch Tesla Motors Open Patents https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carcharging-group-first-touch-tesla-motors-open-patents-20140709/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carcharging-group-first-touch-tesla-motors-open-patents-20140709/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:46:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48437 In a stunning move to expand and encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, Tesla Motors turned and made all of its patents public-access. What does this mean? In the words of visionary Elon Musk, who said in his blog post “All Our Patent Are Belong to You,” “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carcharging-group-first-touch-tesla-motors-open-patents-20140709/feed/ 0 48437 Tesla Motors Patents Open for Everyone to Use https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-motors-patents/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-motors-patents/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:48:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47980 The rumors were true! Tesla Motors has indeed opened up all its patents to open-source, and even symbolically demolished the Patent Wall, shown above. Many companies hold their patents sacred, ready to jump down the throats of anyone even coming close to them. Think about the recent news coverage between Apple and Samsung, the world’s […]

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