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: OSVehicle Tabby: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis.Bruce Sterling. "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") LifeTrac tractor from Open Source Ecology has build instructions for most revisions
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 . 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."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"
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,Alexander Vittouris, Mark Richardson "Designing for Velomobile Diversity: Alternative opportunities for sustainable personal mobility" . 2012. the Hypertrike,Hypertrike the evovelo möDerek 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 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"
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