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
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.