[HN Gopher] Rivian already has a patent on Tesla's Cybertruck 'r...
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       Rivian already has a patent on Tesla's Cybertruck 'range extender'
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2023-12-01 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (electrek.co)
 (TXT) w3m dump (electrek.co)
        
       | verdverm wrote:
       | How is putting an extended battery pack in the bed of a truck
       | novel enough to get a patent...? It seems so obvious and
       | uninventive and we already do this with liquid fuels. Guess we'll
       | have to see if Rivian wants to try and defend it and what the
       | courts think about it
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Sounds like a fun exercise to challenge Rivian's patent with
         | prior art perhaps.
        
         | JohnFen wrote:
         | I couldn't find the actual patent in a quick search, but the
         | odds are extremely high that the patent isn't as general as it
         | sounds. The title of the patent isn't relevant, it's the actual
         | claims in the patent that matter. Odds are, those claims are
         | for something pretty specific, like a special interconnect or
         | something, not for the concept of extended battery packs.
        
       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | Send in the lawyers, they'll be the only ones laughing all the
       | way to the banks.
        
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