Open-source car
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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:
- LifeTrac tractor{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac|title=LifeTrac – Open Source Ecology}} from Open Source Ecology has build instructions for most revisions{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac_Genealogy|title=Lifetrac genealogy}}
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.
- OSVehicle Tabby: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.Bruce Sterling.
[https://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/10/tabby-the-open-source-vehicle/ "Tabby, the Open Source Vehicle"].
("Ampelio Macchi presents Tabby, the first hybrid scooter with 4 wheels in open source")
- Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC BY-NC-SA{{better source|date=October 2013}}
- Common, Dutch electric car (2009){{cite web |author=Kevin Hall |url=http://www.dvice.com/archives/2009/07/common-the-open.php |title='Common,' the opens-source car that anyone can design |date=14 July 2009}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.cmmn.org/en/get-involved.html |title=c,mm,n |access-date=6 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221170851/http://www.cmmn.org/en/get-involved.html |archive-date=21 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}
- eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
- FOSSHW Category L7e Hybrid EV{{Cite web|url=http://lkcl.net/vehicle_3d/|title=Category L7e FOSSHW Hybrid EV}}
- Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV.[http://www.lukaev.com/ "Luka EV – MW Motors"] 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"{{Cite web|title = 2016 Michelin Challenge Design: Indian Team Wins With The Google Community Vehicle – Overdrive|url = http://overdrive.in/news/2016-michelin-challenge-design-indian-team-wins-with-the-google-community-vehicle/|website = overdrive.in|accessdate = 2015-12-14}}
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.
[https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-source-economics-hold-the-key-to-autonomous-vehicles "Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles"].
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Other open-source vehicles
Many open-source vehicles come in the form of velomobiles, like the PUUNK,Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson [http://www.velomobileseminar.com/downloads/Vittouris_Design-diversity.pdf "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916212029/http://www.velomobileseminar.com/downloads/Vittouris_Design-diversity.pdf |date=16 September 2012 }}. 2012. the Hypertrike,[http://www.hypertrike.org/ Hypertrike] the evovelo möDerek 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!"].Glenn Meyers. [https://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/18/evovelo-head-turner-solar-electric-mo/ "Evovelo Head-Turner: Solar-Electric mö"]. or the Atomic Duck velomobile.{{Cite web |url=http://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/projects/atomicduck/ |title="Atomic Duck velomobile" |access-date=27 May 2017 |archive-date=27 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527115852/http://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/projects/atomicduck/ |url-status=live }}
Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle cargo bicycles.
See also
- Modular design, subdivision of a system into smaller parts which can be independently changed
- Kit car, an automobile sold as a set of parts
- Right to repair, legal right to freely modify and repair products
- Velomobile, enclosed human-powered vehicle "bicycle car"