Open-source car
An open-source car is a car with open design—designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.
Automobiles
Some of the earliest open-source cars include:
- ANDRE cars, Inverter – an open source race car designed by Andre Brown (a former student of open source pioneer & RepRap founder Adrian Bowyer) in partnership with Reynard: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
- 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[better source needed]
- C,mm,n – Dutch electric car (2009)[3][4]
- OSCav, an open-source compressed air vehicle
- Freedom EV
- 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
- ^ Bruce Sterling. "Tabby, the Open Source Vehicle". 2013.
- ^ "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")
- ^ Kevin Hall (14 July 2009). "'Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design".
- ^ c,mm,n
- ^ "Luka EV - MW Motors"
- ^ "2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle - Overdrive". overdrive.in. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson. "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility". 2012.
- ^ Hypertrike