(Opps, mis-replied initially, sorry Ron) It's hard to say what these guys are up to. There was another called the OS Car Project. Hopefully they are not the same kind of effort. I put some design effort into the OS Car Project a few years back. It was a problem at that time of leadership. It does suffer from a 'hobbyist' attitude. Nobody would commit to regulating the design goals down for the vehicle itself, and direct the team. They mostly spun wheels about the open source aspect. And about being 'democratic', which was to accommodate all desires. A final design is all about optimizing to a set of goals, and accepting the affects on other attributes. They floundered. Frankly, you can argue all you want about the intellectual process, or the tools of the trade for that mater, but if you don't design something you can't build it. And if you don't build something then what pray-tell are you accomplishing? I think they were mostly hoping someone would do what they were dreaming could be done. In some ways I was too, but at least I was willing to design something and make 'executive' decision about it. I think, in the OSVehicle effort you will need to find some similarities to Local Motors, if they are to get anywhere at all. If you are curious, here's a gateway link into my stuff after OSCarProject. Some electric, some not so much. Hint, find the link images and seek out the three collection, OSCS, Detalidon and Elio https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=18079aaf3596c55cc3845a76042e278f.
Arak Leatham - ( My hobby: I want 300 MPG ) > Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 13:03:01 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] OSV Tabby > From: [email protected] > > https://www.osvehicle.com/ > > What does the list think of this? The basic idea seems to be to get an open > source EV design out there for people to build on. > > They claim that the chassis meets requirements for on-road licensing in US > and Europe, but I'm guessing that it'll take more than a bare chassis to be > street legal. > > Also the claim of 1 hour build time seems to be with 2 well-practiced people > and a ready to go frame. And a shop much better equipped than mine! > > Ron - mobile > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150515/a8eedfd3/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150519/1f20603d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
