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:
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LifeTrac tractor
Concept stage:
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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.
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SGT01 from Wikispeed
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OScar: started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
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OSVehicle Tabby: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.
[Bruce Sterling.
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"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")]
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Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC BY-NC-SA
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Common, Dutch electric car (2009)
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eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
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FOSSHW Category L7e Hybrid EV
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Luka EV, an electric car production platform which first car is the Luka EV.
[ "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
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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
, like the PUUNK,
[Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility" . 2012.] the Hypertrike,
[ Hypertrike] the evovelo mö
[Derek Markham. "It's a Tricycle, It's an EV, It's Another Solar-Electric Velomobile!".][Glenn Meyers. "Evovelo Head-Turner: Solar-Electric mö".] or the Atomic Duck velomobile.
Other open-source vehicles include the Xtracycle .
See also
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Modular design, subdivision of a system into smaller parts which can be independently changed
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Kit car, an automobile sold as a set of parts
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Right to repair, legal right to freely modify and repair products
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Velomobile, enclosed human-powered vehicle "bicycle car"
