An open-source car is a car with open design—designed as open-source hardware, using open-source principles.
Some of the earliest open-source cars include:
ANDRE cars, Inverter – an open source race car designed by Andre Brown (a former student of open source pioneer & RepRap founder Adrian Bowyer) in partnership with Reynard: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
Rally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
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.
Riversimple Urban Car: The CAD models for the Riversimple Hyrban technology demonstrator have been released under a CC-BY-NC-SA
C,mm,n – Dutch electric car (2009)
OSCav, an open-source compressed air vehicle
Freedom EV
eCorolla, an electric vehicle conversion
LifeTrac tractor from Open Source Ecology
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 Challenge Design, “Mobility for All International Design Competition”
Some open-source vehicles, such as the PUUNK velomobile, the Hypertrike, and the Xtracycle, are technically not automobiles.
