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Team Wikispeed
Joe Justice and Team Wikispeed are awesome and we're planning a formal partnership!
The instructions for copying Team Wikispeed's SGT01 car design are currently being built. You can find them here Wikispeed_SGT01
OSVehicle Tabby
The OSVehicle Tabby's chassis, suspension, ... can be ordered from their website (see also here). The vehicle can then be custom made by the person that ordered the parts. The vehicle can be kept for instance small and similar to the 1964 Austin Mini Moke Shorty. If the Tabby main platform (or perhaps a custom project kit) is made road-legal, it can then for instance be used to race with on karting circuits. The idea is that it can then be useful for people that are intrested in car tuning/learning things about modifying the engine (i.e. running on different (low or zero polluting) fuels by integrating custom ECU's on 4-stroke gasoline engines they could use (like the Honda GX200 to 400 series, Tecumseh, EcoMoto, Kohler, Robin, Briggs & Stratton, Yamaha, TKM, Aixro, VT250 from Swissauto (or Tech F-1, Suter Vampire, Biland, Oral, GM) ), using straight vegetable oil (SVO) kits on diesel engines they might use, ... A community of green mechanics can be created and continuously trained this way. The idea isn't too different from doing the same on regular karts, but the fact that no trailer is needed to transport the kart (instead, the mini car can be driven itself to the track) would make the step towards engaging in this hobby smaller, and hence convince more people.
Team Vélocar
Vélocar join OSE mouvement. Vélocar is the OSE microcar
Overview
Update - July, 2013 - See Yann Log
The Open Source 
Car is an automobile designed for transporting passengers.
The OS Car will be a lightweight and aerodynamic two passenger long range car that will be fueled with ethanol biodiesel. The current plan is for the car to have a reverse trike configuration: two front wheels and one rear wheel which is the only driven wheel. The two main benefits of the reverse trike design are lower cost and weight due to one less wheel, and lower wind drag due to the rain drop shape of the body. The construction of the car will be a steel space frame covered with non-structural polymer or composite panels. The proposed powertrain is a hybrid hydraulic system which includes a single cylinder engine that runs a hydraulic pump which directly powers a hydraulic wheel motor used to drive the car and which compresses a gas in an accumulator to store energy. Gas in the accumulator will also be compressed via regenerative braking when the hydraulic motor is run in reverse to slow the car down. Cost control and quick development will be maintained by using donor vehicle parts and off-the-shelf parts. Components that cannot be easily manufactured such as brake calipers, steering knuckles, and rims will be sourced from a donor vehicle and components such as instruments, wiring, and hydraulic components will be off-the-shelf components.
As the car design matures, some components from donor vehicles and off-the-shelf components can be replaced by scratch-built open source components. If desired, forks can be spawned from the original project for variants such a four or five passenger car, or perhaps a car with a hybrid electric powertrain.
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Status
The Open Source Car is currently in the Research Phase of product development.
The Open Source Car in the media
The Open Source Car has been covered in the following online media sources
- Press Release OSE-Wikispeed Collaboration
- Car Technologies of the Future
- A Visit To the Open Source Ecology Project
- Open Source Ecology P2P Foundation
See Also
