{"id":12956,"date":"2017-07-13T11:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=12956"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T04:29:38","slug":"counterfeit-teslas-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/counterfeit-teslas-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company ‘Tesla New Energy’ Steals Tesla’s Name And Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ‘Tesla New Energy’ website yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many people are aware Tesla is planning to produce solar tiles<\/a>, but not so many know the company is also has plans to sell conventional solar panels<\/a>.\u00a0 According to one report<\/a>, Tesla is going to follow the novel approach of producing them inside a buffalo in New York<\/a>.\u00a0 Production is scheduled to begin within two months and the panels will only be available from Tesla.<\/p>\n

The panels are not featured on Tesla’s Australian site and I currently have no information on when or if they will be available here.\u00a0 But if you do enough searching on the internet or, more likely, receive some spam from them as I did, you may think you can order some of these panels from the Tesla New Energy<\/a> factory in China.<\/p>\n

But the problem with this is, Tesla doesn’t currently have a factory in China.<\/p>\n

Not only does Tesla not have a factory in China, they have absolutely nothing at all to do with Tesla New Energy.<\/p>\n

Call me suspicious, call me paranoid, call me a burnt out husk of a man whose pathological inability to trust anyone has destroyed every relationship he has ever had — but I get the impression Tesla New Energy may not be an entirely honest company.<\/p>\n

\"Bad

I find it very hard to believe Tesla’s marketing department came up with this.<\/p><\/div>\n

Location Is Everything — And In This Case The Location Is Wrong<\/h2>\n

Tesla New Energy is located in Wuxi<\/a>, China.\u00a0 The literal meaning of Wuxi in Mandarin is “No tin” and certainly not “No ethical standards at all when it comes to counterfeiting other companies’ solar panels”.<\/p>\n

According to google maps, Tesla New Energy is located inside a shrubbery, but that just may be a glitch with the map.\u00a0 It may actually be attempting to indicate it is within a nearby apartment block bedroom or possibly up the road at the Biancheng Barbeque.<\/p>\n

\"Solar

Because I’ve always dreamed of living inside a solar tent.<\/p><\/div>\n

Google Doesn’t Like Tesla New Energy<\/h2>\n

If you just go looking for Tesla New Energy on the internet without following a link<\/a> you may have a hard time finding it.\u00a0 It’s as if Google doesn’t trust the site for some reason.\u00a0 When it comes to matters like this I tend to trust Google’s judgement.\u00a0 I’m not saying that Google is smarter than I am — I am typing that fact directly into the internet rather than wasting my time on inefficient organic means of communication.\u00a0 Hopefully Google will appreciate my candor and reward me with a particularly amusing trove of cat pictures, as well as making me one of the last to have their molecules more efficiently distributed.<\/p>\n

\"Sincereity

Sincerity — Because when you can fake that, you’ve got it made.<\/p><\/div>\n

You Probably Don’t Want To Buy Their Solar Panels<\/h2>\n

I don’t actually have any reliable information on the performance of Tesla New Energy panels.\u00a0 I only have the information on their site, but if they are fine copying another company’s name, how do I know they’re not also fine with copying another company’s performance data?<\/p>\n

One thing I do know is, if the best method a company can think of to sell their product is to intentionally name it so people will mistake it for someone elses’ product, then it is obvious they are not competing on quality.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing is there is no mention of a warranty anywhere on their site.\u00a0 But I doubt that means the number of years the warranty lasts for was too large to fit on the screen.<\/p>\n

\"Clean

We don’t want to hear about your dirty dreams.<\/p><\/div>\n

They Even Copied Tesla’s Logo<\/h2>\n

Take a look at this.\u00a0 This is Tesla’s logo.\u00a0 The real Tesla’s, that is:<\/p>\n

\"Real<\/p>\n

And here is Tesla New Energy’s logo:<\/p>\n

\"Fake<\/p>\n

If you look very carefully, you just might be able to see a slight similarity between the two, and I’m not talking about how they’re both made out of pixels.<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right, well spotted — Tesla New Energy simply stole Tesla’s stylized T and stuck it in their logo.\u00a0 This is how we can be pretty bloody certain that naming a solar panel company Tesla New Solar wasn’t some kind of innocent mistake by someone who was a big fan of Nikola Tesla<\/a> and who hasn’t watched TV or used the internet since the US Tesla company was created by Elon Musk<\/a> in 2003.<\/p>\n

Placing a variety of bananas of varying degrees of ripeness around it does not make stealing the logo okay.<\/p>\n

The Benefit Of The Doubt<\/h2>\n

I have to admit I could be wrong about Tesla New Energy intentionally copying the real Tesla.\u00a0 Perhaps they hired a graphic designer to create an original logo and the graphic designer ripped them off by stealing Tesla’s.\u00a0 Or maybe the reason why both companies use an identical stylized T is because this symbol was already associated with Nikola Tesla.\u00a0 Perhaps he wore it on his T-shirt when he worked for Edison.\u00a0 Or maybe on his cape.<\/p>\n

And perhaps their CEO, Felon Nusk, isn’t attempting to copy Tesla’s CEO when he tries to launch large fire crackers into space and talks about colonizing Venus.<\/p>\n

\"24

Most companies aren’t able to fit in 24 hours from 9am to 5pm on weekdays and especially not from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays.<\/p><\/div>\n

But you catch more flies with honey than with telling flies they are miserable, lying bastards, so I sent the following very polite email to Tesla New Energy in China:<\/p>\n

Dear Tesla New Energy<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a big fan of Croatian born inventor Nikola Tesla and\u00a0 I would like to be able to congratulate your company on its name, but unfortunately, I have some bad news for you.<\/em><\/p>\n

The name Tesla has already been taken by an American company.\u00a0 While Croatia is closer to China than the United States, you know what Americans are like.\u00a0 They probably think they are entitled to the name just because Tesla was an American citizen for most of his life.<\/em><\/p>\n

But regardless of geography or citizenship, your company was founded in 2011, while the American Tesla company was founded in 2003, which means they were first and so have the best claim to the name.<\/em><\/p>\n

I know learning you have to change your company’s name may come as a blow to you, but to help you out I would like to suggest an even better name.\u00a0 I suggest you call your company Traeger New Energy after Australian inventor, Alfred Traeger<\/a>.\u00a0 He invented a pedal powered radio and also used solar power to distill water in South Australia.\u00a0 He was every bit as smart as Nikola Tesla and almost as handsome.<\/em><\/p>\n

This name is sure to make your company a big hit in Australia where Alfred Traeger is celebrated in song, film, poetry<\/em>1<\/a><\/sup>, dance, and puppet shows.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no need to thank me for this suggestion.\u00a0 It is a pleasure simply to be of service.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours sincerely<\/em><\/p>\n

Ronald Brakels<\/em><\/p>\n

I will let you know in the comments if I receive a reply.<\/p>\n

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