Originally Posted by
tyrion
I'd keep an eye on Tesla. As soon as something like graphene or solid state batteries become commercially feasible at large scale, they'll be all over it.
FWIW, I saw a presentation by engineers at Zero, makes of electric motorcycles, soon after Tesla released their technology into the public domain. The Zero engineers said that they studied the patents but did not see anything that they could use, which I thought was a bit surprising. They went on to say that while related, Tesla's application of battery tech is different enough from Zero's to not cross over.
So I don't think that you can make a blanket statement about Tesla's adoption of new battery tech. The engineering seems more complicated and nuanced than that.