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 licenseRally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA licenseSGT01 from WikispeedOScar – 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-SAC,mm,n – Dutch electric car (2009)OSCav, an open-source compressed air vehicleFreedom EVeCorolla, an electric vehicle conversionLifeTrac tractor from Open Source EcologyLuka 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 IIIGoogle 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.
