Open Source Car

• HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
  
• AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
  
• ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
  
• FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
  
• TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
  
• MATERIALS: Bioplastics

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OSCar - biofuels would fuel the OSCar. There exist several attempts at an open source car worldwide, all of which remain without product to date. We propose a pusher trailer - where a hybrid trailer pushes any lightweight, gutted chassis from behind - as Phase 1. This would prove the integration of an engine power source (initially preferred to be fueled by free waste vegetable oil) with electrical generation, wheel electric motors in the trailer, motor controls, and electric braking. Once this is proven, then an open source platform for designing cars from the ground up will exist. The key is cost control, initially by adopting surplus components, and eventually, by producing open source components and materials. Evolved phases involve aluminum structure, scaleable wheel motors, regenerative breaking, and motor controls - all open source. Distributed production is an automatic possibility.

Collaboration

Review of Project Status

8.28.07

OSCar is preesently defining the design for scaleability. One may want to review prior work done by us here and other groups:

• http://theoscarproject.org/ - German project
• http://www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/archive/oscarproject/ - UK project
• http://news.windingroad.com/concept-cars/meet-cmmn-the-worlds-first-open-source-car/ - Netherlands project

Our first step is to devise a propulsion and drive system that has asolute power scaleability, from 1 kW to approximately 400 kW. The question is how to implement such design most effectively, to reduce production and maintenance costs, via scaleable design where scaling is accomplished by modular design. This is a biomimicry approach - like a tree that is made of millions of identical cells, which can be big or small in overall appearance. OSCar design according to the scaleability criterion is facilitated by making the device a hybrid electric vehicle. To implement absolute scaleability, the following must scale infinitely:

• fuel delivery
• primary power source output
• electrical generator output
• wiring for power delivery
• stored and regenerated power supply
• electric power controls
• total wheel motor power
• traction delivery

Our assumption is that we will proceed with:

1. pusher trailer prototype to demonstrate component performance and scaleability as above - low cost approach to proof of concept
2. ground-up design of chassis and car after components are demonstrated
3. flexible fabrication capacity building once a working product is achieved

Development Work Template

1. OSCar - Product Definition
   1. OSCar - General
   2. OSCar - General Scope
   3. OSCar - Product Ecology
      1. OSCar - Localization
      2. OSCar - Scaleability
      3. OSCar - Analysis of Scale
      4. OSCar - Lifecycle Analysis
   4. OSCar - Enterprise Options
   5. OSCar - Development Approach
      1. OSCar - Timeline
      2. OSCar - Development Budget
         1. OSCar - Value Spent
         2. OSCar - Value available
         3. OSCar - Value needed
   6. OSCar - Deliverables and Product Specifications
   7. OSCar - Industry Standards
   8. OSCar - Market and Market Segmentation
   9. OSCar - Salient Features and Keys to Success
2. OSCar - Technical Design
   1. OSCar - Product System Design
      1. OSCar - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
         1. OSCar - Pattern Language Icons
         2. OSCar - Structural Diagram
         3. OSCar - Funcional or Process Diagram
         4. OSCar - Workflow
      2. OSCar - Technical Issues
      3. OSCar - Deployment Strategy
      4. OSCar - Performance specifications
      5. OSCar - Calculations
         1. OSCar - Design Calculations
         2. OSCar - Yields
         3. OSCar - Rates
         4. OSCar - Structural Calculations
         5. OSCar - Power Requirements
         6. OSCar - Ergonomics of Production
         7. OSCar -Time Requirements
         8. OSCar - Economic Breakeven Analysis
         9. OSCar - Scaleability Calculations
         10. OSCar - Growth Calculations
      6. OSCar - Technical Drawings and CAD
      7. OSCar - CAM Files
   2. OSCar - Component Design
      1. OSCar - Diagrams
      2. OSCar - Conceptual drawings
      3. OSCar - Performance specifications
      4. OSCar - Performance calculations
      5. OSCar - Technical drawings and CAD
      6. OSCar - CAM files whenever available
   3. OSCar - Subcomponents
3. OSCar - Deployment and Results
   1. CEB - Production steps
   2. OSCar - Flexible Fabrication or Production
   3. OSCar - Bill of materials
   4. OSCar - Pictures and Video
   5. OSCar - Data
4. OSCar - Documentation and Education
   1. OSCar - Documentation
   2. OSCar - Enterprise Plans
5. OSCar - Resource Development
   1. OSCar - Identifying Stakeholders
      1. OSCar - Information Collaboration
         1. OSCar - Wiki Markup
         2. OSCar - Addition of Supporting References
         3. OSCar - Production of diagrams, flowcharts, 3D computer models, and other qualitative information architecture
         4. OSCar - Technical Calculations, Drawings, CAD, CAM, other
      2. OSCar - Prototyping
      3. OSCar - Funding
      4. OSCar - Preordering working products
      5. OSCar - Grantwriting
      6. OSCar - Publicity
      7. OSCar - User/Fabricator Training and Accreditation
      8. OSCar - Standards and Certification Developmen
      9. OSCar - Other
   2. OSCar - Grantwriting
      1. OSCar - Volunteer grantwriters
      2. OSCar - Professional, Outcome-Based Grantwriters
   3. OSCar - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
   4. OSCar - Tool and Material Donations
   5. OSCar - Charitable Contributions