
Toyota offers open access to their electric vehicle patents.
Toyota has announced that it's opening up its vehicle electrification patent archive to help speed up the development and adoption of electric vehicles. Research and development of electric vehicles is costly and time consuming. Toyota wants to help, announcing that it will grant royalty-free licenses to other manufacturers for nearly 24,000 patents (including some pending applications) relating to vehicle electrification technologies. The focus of the electric vehicle techno