An open-source car is a
car
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarded as ...
with
open design: designed as
open-source hardware
Open-source hardware (OSH) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and a ...
, using
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
principles.
Automobiles
Open-source cars include:
Completed and available to build, with link to CAD files and build instructions:
* LifeTrac tractor from
Open Source Ecology
Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open techn ...
has build instructions for most revisions
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
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".A "work" is any creative material made by a person. A painting, a graphic, a book, a song/lyrics ...
license. The design was made piece by piece by an open community in an forum. Several units has been manufactured and sold.
* SGT01 from
Wikispeed
Wikispeed is an automotive manufacturer that produces modular design cars. Wikispeed competed in the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition in 2010. The car debuted at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michiga ...
*
OScar: started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013.
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OSVehicle Tabby
Tabby is an open source platform for vehicles by OSVehicle. The project is released under Creative Commons BY-SA license and the CAD files can be downloaded from the official website, last release was in May 2015. The chassis can be assembled in le ...
: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.
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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)
*
eCorolla
The Toyota Corolla (E120/E130) is the ninth generation of compact cars sold by Toyota under the Toyota Corolla, Corolla nameplate. In Japan, this series arrived to the market in August 2000; however, exports were typically not achieved until 200 ...
, an
electric vehicle conversion
* FOSSHW Category L7e Hybrid EV
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 create by an Indian team for the 2016
Michelin
Michelin (; ; full name: ) is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ''région'' of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world behind Bridgestone and la ...
Challenge Design, "Mobility for All International Design Competition"
Self-driving car prototypes have collected petabytes of data. Some companies, including Daimler,
Baidu,
Aptiv
Aptiv PLC is an Irish-American automotive technology supplier with headquarters in Dublin. Aptiv grew out of the now-defunct American company, Delphi Automotive Systems, which itself was formerly a component of General Motors.
History
The com ...
,
Lyft,
Waymo,
Argo AI
Argo AI was an autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was co-founded in 2016 by Bryan Salesky and Peter Rander, veterans of the Google and Uber automated driving programs. Argo AI was an inde ...
,
Ford and
Audi have publicly released datasets under more-or-less open licenses.
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.
See also
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Kit car
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Modular design
Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called ''modules'' (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules ...
*
Velomobile
References
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Open hardware vehicles
Open design