Tesla already accuses Xpeng, a Chinese EV startup, of stealing part of its intellectual property, but that doesn't stop the company from simply copying Tesla's website design.
Last year, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Guangzhi Cao, a former autopilot engineer who quit to join Xpeng's autonomous driver team.
In the lawsuit, the automaker claims that Cao downloaded the autopilot source code to his personal device via Airdrop before he left the company, and sold it to the company when he joined Xpeng.
Tesla wants evidence that Xpeng does not use its autopilot source code as part of its own driver assistance functions, which are extremely similar to those of Tesla.
Xpeng's website for its new electric P7 sedan has now been referred to , and again is a clear copy of Tesla's own website design.
Henry Xia, who founded Xpeng in 2014, openly admitted that he was influenced by Tesla and the automaker's announcement that they would disclose their patents.
It was reportedly the first company that actually asked Tesla to use its patents for free.
However, Tesla didn't really literally make his patent open source, but rather promised not to sue anyone who uses his patents in good faith to manufacture electric vehicles.
Tesla made it clear that he would enforce his intellectual property rights if companies tried to copy his design directly.
Although the Xpeng P7 has some features that resemble those of the Tesla, the vehicle is still different, but they can hardly deny that they are copying its website.
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