An open-source car is a

car A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billio ...

with

open design The open-design movement involves the development of physical products, machines and systems through use of publicly shared design information. This includes the making of both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open-source hardwar ...

: designed as

open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifact (software development), 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 th ...

, using

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

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 has build instructions for most revisions Concept stage: *

Rally Fighter The Rally Fighter is an American automobile manufactured by Local Motors and introduced in 2009. It is the first car to be developed using co-creation design. The exterior design was submitted by Sangho Kim and selected through community votes. Th ...

, an all-terrain vehicle by

Local Motors Local Motors was an American manufacturing company focused on low-volume production of open-source vehicles and other products using multiple microfactories. The company built a platform that combined online community co-creation with distribut ...

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 CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and bui ...

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 Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer ...

: started in 1999, still in concept phase as of 2013. * OSVehicle Tabby: Tabby is the first OSVehicle: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis. * Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a

* 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 In automobile engineering, electric vehicle conversion is the replacement of a car's combustion engine and connected components with an electric motor and batteries, to create a battery electric vehicle (BEV). There are two main aims for conver ...

* 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 created by an Indian team for the 2016

Michelin Michelin ( , ), in full ("General Company of the Michelin Enterprises P.L.S."), is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes '' région'' of France. It is the second largest t ...

Challenge Design, "Mobility for All International Design Competition"

Self-driving car A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input. They are sometimes called robotaxis, though this term refers specifica ...

prototypes have collected petabytes of data. Some companies, including Daimler,

Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of o ...

Aptiv Aptiv PLC is an Irish- American automotive technology supplier with headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Aptiv grew out of the now-defunct American company, Delphi Automotive Systems, which itself was formerly a component of General Moto ...

Lyft Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering ride-hailing services, motorized scooters, and bicycle-sharing systems in the United States and Canada. Lyft sets fares, which vary using a dynamic pricing model based on local supply and demand a ...

Waymo Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Google's parent company (Alphabet Inc., Alphabet Inc). T ...

, Argo AI,

Ford Ford commonly refers to: * Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford * Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river Ford may also refer to: Ford Motor Company * Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company * Ford F ...

and

Audi Audi AG () is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. A subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, Audi produces vehicles in nine production facilities worldwide. The origins of the compa ...

have publicly released datasets under more-or-less open licenses.

Other open-source vehicles

Many open-source vehicles come in the form of

velomobile A velomobile (); velomobiel, velo, or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle (HPV) enclosed for Aerodynamics, aerodynamic advantage and/or protection from weather and collisions. Velomobiles are similar to recumbent bicycles, pedal go-karts and ...

s, like the PUUNK, the Hypertrike, the evovelo mö or the Atomic Duck velomobile. Other open-source vehicles include the

Xtracycle Xtracycle is the name of a company and the name commonly used for the variety of load-carrying bicycle that results from use of the company's products: the FreeRadical kit. Web forums and blogs often use the shorthand ''Xtrabike'', ''Xtra'', o ...

cargo bicycles.

References

{{reflist Open hardware vehicles Open design

Automobiles

Other open-source vehicles

See also

References