Open-source car explained

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:

• LifeTrac tractor^[1] from Open Source Ecology has build instructions for most revisions^[2]

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 an forum. Several units have been manufactured and sold.
• 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.^{[3] [4]}
• 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)^{[5] [6]}
• eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
• FOSSHW Category L7e Hybrid EV^[7]
• Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV.^[8] 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"^[9]

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.^[10]

Other open-source vehicles

Many open-source vehicles come in the form of velomobiles, like the PUUNK,^[11] the Hypertrike,^[12] the evovelo mö^{[13] [14]} or the Atomic Duck velomobile.^[15]

Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle.

See also

• Kit car
• Modular design
• Velomobile

Notes and References

1. Web site: LifeTrac – Open Source Ecology.
2. Web site: Lifetrac genealogy.
3. Bruce Sterling."Tabby, the Open Source Vehicle".2013.
4. http://www.automoto.it/news/ampelio-macchi-presenta-tabby-il-primo-scooter-ibrido-a-4-ruote-in-open-source.html "Ampelio Macchi presenta Tabby, il primo scooter ibrido a 4 ruote in open source"
5. Web site: Kevin Hall . 'Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design . 14 July 2009.
6. Web site: c,mm,n . 6 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130221170851/http://www.cmmn.org/en/get-involved.html . 21 February 2013 . dead .
7. Web site: Category L7e FOSSHW Hybrid EV.
8. http://www.lukaev.com/ "Luka EV – MW Motors"
9. Web site: 2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle – Overdrive. overdrive.in. 2015-12-14.
10. Adi Singh."Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles".2020.
11. Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility" . 2012.
12. http://www.hypertrike.org/ Hypertrike
13. Derek Markham."It's a Tricycle, It's an EV, It's Another Solar-Electric Velomobile!".
14. Glenn Meyers. "Evovelo Head-Turner: Solar-Electric mö".
15. Web site: "Atomic Duck velomobile" . 27 May 2017 . 27 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170527115852/http://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/projects/atomicduck/ . live .