They've developed a range of plans for small electric vehicles which include solar panels. The plans are available for free.
It's not clear whether there is a license or copyright on the plans. The intent appears to be "Open Source" in that they urge people to take the plans and build vehicles with them. However that there's no explicit copyright or license granting rights is a potential issue.
A project sponsored by the North Bay Electric Auto Association to cooperatively develop an electric car using open source methodologies. They don't discuss the licensing, and licensing is an important aspect of open source projects. They do have good intentions of openly documenting and sharing the results of their development.
A series of open source designs for bicycle cargo trailers.
collaboratively develop methods for velomobile construction.
began life as a Yahoo mailing list. The current plan is to collect dues from members to fund the club's projects.
This group is for the purpose of getting BEV's into production by group effort. The auto companies will not do it so we must do it ourselves. We intend to enable start up of open hardware EV production lines and standards of several types of EV's done by group vote with money raised by the group.
A Yahoo!Group dedicated to electric motor design. They state the objectives as a) To share a database collected related to electric motors and power electronics, b) Discuss technical problems, 3) Upgrade knowledge, IV) Share job opportunities related to electric motor design, e) etc..
This Yahoo!Group is intended to maintain a discussion of design issues affecting the Open Source Motor Controller Project. The hardware design in this project will be open to anyone to build and experiment with. We welcome hobbiests and professionals alike to discuss the problems and solutions of building a reliable PMDC motor controller.
A blog/diary of building an electric motorcycle. The specifications appear to be published openly so that others can replicate it.
An attempt to gather the expertise of many to design low cost battery solutions for Electric Vehicles and Hybrids. The primary goal will be to design car sized batteries using cheap off the shelf cells such as Lithium Ion or Nickel Metal Hydride. It addition a suitable charger/battery management system needs to be designed that can charge and maintain these packs. We feel that inexpensive DIY batteries of this type will give home built EV and Hybrid vehicles greater range and provide more options for the builders.
It is the goal of the OScar Project to develop a car according to Open Source principles. In our opinion, a car is not a vehicle full of high-tech gadgets. Instead, we are looking for a simple and functional concept to spread mobility. Form follows function.
Apart from that, OScar is not just a car. It is about new ways of mobility and the spreading of the Open Source idea in the real (physical) world.
