Open-source car

An open-source car is a car with open design—designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.

Automobiles

Open-source cars include:

  • Rally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
  • SGT01 from Wikispeed
  • OScar – started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
  • OSVehicle – Tabby – Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.[1][2]
  • Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC-BY-NC-SA
  • C,mm,n – Dutch electric car (2009)[3][4]
  • OSCav, an open-source compressed air vehicle
  • eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
  • LifeTrac tractor from Open Source Ecology
  • Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV.[5] Only Mrk I & II are open source, the source was closed in July 2016 to allow commercial production of Mrk III
  • Google Community Vehicle, a multi-purpose mode of transport. It can be used as a farm vehicle that attaches to farming equipment or as a means to transport the produce. This car was create by an Indian team for the 2016 Michelin Challenge Design, “Mobility for All International Design Competition”[6]

Other open-source vehicles

Some open-source vehicles, such as the PUUNK velomobile,[7] the Hypertrike,[8] and the Xtracycle, are technically not automobiles.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bruce Sterling. "Tabby, the Open Source Vehicle". 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ampelio Macchi presenta Tabby, il primo scooter ibrido a 4 ruote in open source" ("Ampelio Macchi presents Tabby, the first hybrid scooter with 4 wheels in open source")
  3. ↑ Kevin Hall (14 July 2009). "'Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design".
  4. ↑ c,mm,n
  5. ↑ "Luka EV - MW Motors"
  6. ↑ "2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle - Overdrive". overdrive.in. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
  7. ↑ Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson. "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility". 2012.
  8. ↑ Hypertrike
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