Open-source car

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Car with open design

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::summary Car with open design ::

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

Automobiles

Open-source cars include:

Completed and available to build, with link to CAD files and build instructions:

Concept stage:

  • Rally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. The design was made piece by piece by an open community in a forum. Several units have been manufactured and sold.
  • SGT01 from Wikispeed
  • OScar: started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
  • Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC BY-NC-SA
  • Common, Dutch electric car (2009)
  • eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
  • Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV. 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 created by an Indian team for the 2016 Michelin Challenge Design, "Mobility for All International Design Competition"

Self-driving car prototypes have collected petabytes of data. Some companies, including Daimler, Baidu, Aptiv, Lyft, Waymo, Argo AI, Ford and Audi have publicly released datasets under more-or-less open licenses.Adi Singh. "Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles". 2020.

Other open-source vehicles

Many open-source vehicles come in the form of velomobiles, like the PUUNK, the Hypertrike, the evovelo mö or the Atomic Duck velomobile.

Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle cargo bicycles.

References

References

  1. "LifeTrac – Open Source Ecology".
  2. "Lifetrac genealogy".
  3. Kevin Hall. (14 July 2009). "'Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design".
  4. "c,mm,n".
  5. [http://www.lukaev.com/ "Luka EV – MW Motors"]
  6. "2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle – Overdrive".
  7. Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson [http://www.velomobileseminar.com/downloads/Vittouris_Design-diversity.pdf "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility"] {{Webarchive. link. (16 September 2012 . 2012.)
  8. [http://www.hypertrike.org/ Hypertrike]
  9. Derek Markham.[https://www.treehugger.com/its-tricycle-its-ev-its-solar-electric-velomobile-evovelo-4855723 "It's a Tricycle, It's an EV, It's Another Solar-Electric Velomobile!"].
  10. Glenn Meyers. [https://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/18/evovelo-head-turner-solar-electric-mo/ "Evovelo Head-Turner: Solar-Electric mö"].
  11. ""Atomic Duck velomobile"".

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